John 13:3–5
Knowing everything was in his hands, he takes a towel and washes his friends' feet
Study it word by word3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,
4gets up from supper and lays aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, he tied it around himself.
5Then he pours water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him.
In its context
1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.
2And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart that Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, should hand him over,
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6So he comes to Simon Peter; he says to him, “Lord, are you washing my feet?”
7Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but you will understand afterward.”
Its words in the original
- εἰδὼςeidōs· see
See, look; notice.
- ἔδωκενedōken· give
Give.
- πατὴρpatēr· father, Father
Father; also ancestor.
- χεῖραςcheiras· hand
Hand.
- θεοῦtheou· God, god
God. In the plural or in another sense, "gods".
- ἐξῆλθενexēlthen· go out
Go out, come out.
- ὑπάγειhypagei· go away
Go away, leave; "go!".
- ἐγείρεταιegeiretai· raise
Raise, wake up; get up; raise from the dead.
- δείπνουdeipnou· supper, dinner
Supper, banquet.
- τίθησινtithēsin· put, lay
Put, place, lay down.
- ἱμάτιαhimatia· cloak, clothes
Cloak, the outer garment; in the plural, clothes.
- λαβὼνlabōn· take, receive
Take, receive.
- λέντιονlention· towel
Towel, linen cloth.
- διέζωσενdiezōsen· tie around
Tie something around one's waist.
- εἶταeita· then
Then, next.
- βάλλειballei· throw, put
Throw, cast; also put.
- ὕδωρhydōr· water
Water.
- νιπτῆραniptēra· basin
Basin, a bowl for washing.
- ἤρξατοērxato· begin
Begin.
- νίπτεινniptein· wash
Wash (the hands, the feet, the face).
- πόδαςpodas· foot
Foot.
- μαθητῶνmathētōn· disciple
Disciple: someone who learns from a teacher and follows him in order to live as he does.
- ἐκμάσσεινekmassein· wipe
Wipe, dry.
- ἦνēn· be
Be, exist.