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Johannes 13:1
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the feast: John 6:4, Matthew 26:2-5, Mark 14:1, Mark 14:2, Luke 22:1, Luke 22:2
knew: John 7:6, John 7:30, John 8:20, John 11:9, John 11:10, John 12:23, John 17:1, John 17:11, John 18:4, Matthew 26:45, Luke 9:51, Luke 13:32, Luke 13:33, Luke 22:53
depart: John 13:3, John 14:28, John 16:5-7, John 16:28, John 17:5, John 17:11, John 17:13
having: John 13:34, John 15:9, John 15:10, John 15:13, John 15:14, John 17:9, John 17:10, John 17:14, John 17:16, John 17:26, Jeremiah 31:3, Romans 8:37, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:26, 1 John 4:19, Revelation 1:5
unto: Matthew 28:20, 1 Corinthians 1:8, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 6:11, 1 Peter 1:13
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 22:5 - David prepared Psalms 31:15 - My times Proverbs 8:31 - and my Zephaniah 3:17 - he will Matthew 26:18 - My time Mark 14:41 - the hour Mark 16:19 - he was Luke 2:41 - the Luke 22:15 - With desire I have desired John 2:4 - mine John 5:25 - The hour John 7:33 - Yet John 18:8 - let John 19:28 - Jesus John 20:17 - I ascend Acts 1:2 - the day Acts 20:22 - not Romans 8:35 - shall separate Philippians 1:23 - a desire 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - which 2 Peter 1:17 - God
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now before the feast of the passover,.... This feast was instituted as a memorial of the deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and was an eminent type of Christ; and this passover was what Christ had greatly desired, it being his last, and when he was to express his great love to his people, mentioned here, by dying for them. It was two days before this feast, so the Persic version reads this text, at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, that the things recorded in this chapter were transacted; see
Matthew 26:2;
when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world to the Father. The death of Christ is here signified by a departing out of this world, a way of speaking frequently used by the Jews as expressive of death; Matthew 26:2- :. Much such a phrase is made use of concerning Moses, of whom it is said p, that the fourth song that was sung in the world, was sung by him
"when "his time was come", למפטר מן עלמא, "to depart out of the world";''
an easy and familiar form of speech to express death by, as if it was only a removing front one place to another. The place from whence Christ was about to remove is called "this world": this present world, into which he was come to save sinners, and in which he then was, and where he had already met with very ill usage, and barbarous treatment, and was to meet with more: where he was going is said to be "to the Father", in whose bosom he lay, by whom he was sent, from whom he came; to his God and Father, and the God and Father of all his people, to take his place in their nature at his right hand. A time or hour was fixed for this; for as there was a set time, called "the fulness of time", agreed upon for his coming into the world, so there was for his going out of it: and now this "his hour was come"; the time was now up, or at least very near at hand; and he "knew" it, being God omniscient, which gave him no uneasiness: nor did it in the least alienate his affections from his people: for
having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end. The objects of his love are described by his property in them, "his own"; by whom are meant, not all mankind, who are his by creation; nor the Jews, who were his nation and countrymen according to the flesh; nor the twelve apostles only, whom he had chosen; but all the elect of God, who are his own, by his choice of them, by the Father's gift of them to him, by the purchase he made of them with his blood, and by his effectual call of them by his grace: these are also described by their condition and situation, "which were in the world"; which is not said to distinguish them from the saints that were in heaven, or to express their former state of unregeneracy, but their present situation in this vain and evil world, which is no objection to Christ's love to them; for though whilst in this world they carry about with them a body of sin and death, are liable to many snares and temptations, and are involved in the troubles, and exposed to the hatred of the world, yet are, and always will be, the objects of the love and care of Christ. The acts of his love to them are expressed both in time past, and to come: "having loved" them; so he did from everlasting, with a love of complacency and delight, which he showed as early by espousing their persons to himself, by undertaking their cause, by taking the charge of their persons, and the care of both their grace and glory, and in time by assuming their nature; and having done all this, "he loved them to the end": and which he showed by dying for them; and continues to show by interceding for them in heaven, by supplying them with all grace, and by preserving them from a final and total falling away; and he will at last introduce them into his kingdom and glory, when they shall be for ever with him; and so that love to them continues not only to the end of his own life, nor barely to the end of theirs, but to the end of the world, and for ever; and so εις τελος, signifies, and is rendered "continually", Luke 18:5, and in the Septuagint on Psalms 9:6 answers to לנצח, which signifies "for ever"; and is so translated here by the Ethiopic version.
p Targum in Cant. i. 1, 7. Vid. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 96. fol. 84. 1. & Debarim Rabba, sect. 11. fol. 245. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The feast of the passover - See the notes at Matthew 26:2, Matthew 26:17.
His hour was come - The hour appointed in the purpose of God for him to die, John 12:27.
Having loved his own - Having given to them decisive and constant proofs of his love. This was done by his calling them to follow him; by patiently teaching them; by bearing with their errors and weaknesses; and by making them the heralds of his truth and the heirs of eternal life.
He loved them unto the end - That is, he continued the proofs of his love until he was taken away from them by death. Instances of that love John proceeds immediately to record in his washing their feet and in the institution of the Lord’s Supper. We may remark that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not change; he always loves the same traits of character; nor does he withdraw his love from the soul. If his people walk in darkness and wander from him, the fault is theirs, not his. His is the character of a friend that never leaves or forsakes us; a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Psalms 37:28; “the Lord ...forsaketh not his saints.” Isaiah 49:14-17; Proverbs 18:24.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XIII.
Christ washes the feet of his disciples, and gives them
instructions concerting humility and charity, 1-17.
He tells them that one of themselves will betray him, 18-20.
The disciples doubting of whom he spoke, Peter desires John to
ask him, 21-25.
Jesus shows that it is Judas Iscariot, 26.
Satan enters into Judas, and he rises up and leaves the company,
27-30.
Christ shows his approaching death, and commands his disciples
to love one another, 31-35.
Peter, professing strong attachment to Christ, is informed of
his denial. 36-38.
NOTES ON CHAP. XIII.
Verse John 13:1. Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew, c.] Or, as some translate, Now Jesus having known, before the feast of the passover, that his hour was come, c. The supper mentioned in John 13:2 is supposed to have been that on the Thursday evening, when the feast of the passover began and though, in our common translation, this passage seems to place the supper before that feast, yet, according to the amended translation, what is here said is consistent with what we read in the other evangelists. See 2 John 1:12; John 12:1.
Having loved his own — His disciples.
Which were in the world — Who were to continue longer in its troubles and difficulties.
He loved them unto the end. — Continued his fervent affection towards them to his latest breath, and gave them that convincing proof of it which is mentioned John 13:5. That the disciples alone are meant here every man must see.
