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John 13:4

He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

KJV

ἐγείρεται ἐκ τοῦ δείπνου καὶ τίθησιν τὰ ἱμάτια, καὶ λαβὼν λέντιον διέζωσεν ἑαυτόν·

Greek NT

surgit a cœna, et ponit vestimenta sua, et cum accepisset linteum, præcinxit se.

Vulgate

riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments; and he took a towel, and girded himself.

ASV

He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and, having taken a towel, girded himself.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δεῖπνον
deipnon
noun · 16×
διαζώννυμι
diazonnumi
verb · 3×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέντιον
lention
noun · 2×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
τίθημι
tithemi
verb · 99×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἱμάτιον
imation
noun · 59×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1337The Lord, having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of love.161 In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eu…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 8:9 — For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
  • 2Kgs 3:11 — But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, wh
  • John 13:12 — So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
  • Luke 7:38 — And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
  • Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
  • Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
  • Luke 17:7 — But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
  • Luke 22:27 — For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
  • Matt 20:28 — Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Phil 2:6 — Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: