Thematic Bible: He was free from all worldly pride
Thematic Bible
Humility » He was free from all worldly pride » Of rank is not this the carpenter's son?
Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?
Humility » He was free from all worldly pride » Of reputation he shall be called a nazarene
and came and dwelt in a town called Nazareth; so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, He shall be called a Nazaraean.
Humility » He was free from all worldly pride » Of riches he hath not where to lay his head
And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven roosting-places; but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head.
Humility » He was free from all worldly pride » Of worldly success he is despised and rejected of men
He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.
Humility » He was free from all worldly pride » Of appearance he hath no form nor comeliness
For he shall grow up before him as a tender sapling, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor lordliness, and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Humility » He was free from all worldly pride » Of kingship he washed the disciples' feet
then he pours water into the washhand basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the linen towel with which he was girded.