John 13:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

The feast

Knew

Depart

Having

Revelation 1:5

Unto

1 Peter 1:13

General references

John 6:4

Bible References

The feast

It was near the time of the Jewish Festival of the Passover.

"You know that in two days time the Festival of the Passover will be here; and that the Son of Man is to be given up to be crucified."

It was now two days before the Festival of the Passover and the Unleavened bread. The Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus by stealth, and to put him to death;

The Feast of the Unleavened Bread, known as the Passover, was near.

Knew

"My time," answered Jesus, "is not come yet, but your time is always here.

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

"Are not there twelve hours in the day?" answered Jesus. "If a man walks about in the day-time, he does not stumble, because he can see the light of the sun;

This was his reply-- "The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heaven-wards, and said: "Father, the hour has come; honor thy Son, that thy Son may honor thee;

Jesus, aware of all that was coming upon him, went to meet them, and said to them: "For whom are you looking?"

Then he came to the disciples, and said: "Sleep on now, and rest yourselves. Hark! my time is close at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of wicked men.

As the days before his being taken up to Heaven were growing few, Jesus set his face resolutely in the direction of Jerusalem; and he sent on messengers in advance.

But Jesus answered: "Go and say to that fox 'Look you, I am driving out demons and shall be completing cures to-day and to- morrow, and on the third day I shall have done.'

When I was with you day after day in the Temple Courts, you did not lay hands on me; but now your time has come, and the power of Darkness."

Depart

And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

And now do thou honor me, Father, at thy own side, with the honor which I had at thy side before the world began.

Having

I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love.

I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own--

Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

We love, because God first loved us.

and from Jesus Christ, ' the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead, and the Ruler of all the Kings of the earth.' To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood--

Unto

And teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age."

And God himself will strengthen you to the end, so that at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ you may be found blameless.

the faithfulness of Christ was that of a Son set over the House of God. And we are his House--if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.

But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end.

Therefore concentrate your minds, with the strictest self-control, and fix your hopes on the blessing that is coming for you at the Appearing of Jesus Christ.

General references

It was near the time of the Jewish Festival of the Passover.