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

The Jewish Festival, the Passover, was at hand.

"You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

Knew

"My time," replied Jesus, "has not yet come, but for you any time is suitable.

These sayings He uttered in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.

"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.

His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;

Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them.

Then He came to the disciples and said, "Sleep on and rest. See, the moment is close at hand when the Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men.

Now when the time drew near for Him to be received up again into Heaven, He proceeded with fixed purpose towards Jerusalem, and sent messengers before Him.

"Go," He replied, "and take this message to that fox: "'See, to-day and to-morrow I am driving out demons and effecting cures, and on the third day I finish my course.'

While day after day I was with you in the Temple, you did not lay hands upon me; but to you belongs this hour--and the power of darkness."

Depart

although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God,

"You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.

And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence, with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.

Having

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who has loved us.

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

We love because God first loved us.

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

Unto

and teach them to obey every command which I have given you. And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close of the Age."

who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;

Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.

General references

The Jewish Festival, the Passover, was at hand.