John 13:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹If I then,› [your] ‹Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ οὖν ἐγὼ, ἔνιψα ὑμῶν τοὺς πόδας· ὁ Κύριος καὶ ὁ Διδάσκαλος, καὶ ὑμεῖς ὀφείλετε ἀλλήλων νίπτειν τοὺς πόδας.

Transliteration

If therefore I, enipsa of you the podas; the Kyrios and the Didaskalos, also you opheilete of one another niptein the podas.

Grammar Details

• *enipsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st singular - washed
• *podas*: accusative, masculine, plural - feet
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord/Master
• *Didaskalos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Teacher
• *opheilete*: present active indicative, 2nd plural - you ought/are obligated
• *niptein*: present active infinitive - to wash

Word Meanings

• *enipsa*: washed/cleansed
• *podas*: feet
• *Kyrios*: Lord/Master/Owner
• *Didaskalos*: Teacher/Master/Instructor
• *opheilete*: ought/are obligated/should
• *niptein*: to wash/to cleanse

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 ¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Luke 22:26-27 : 26 ‹But ye› [shall] ‹not› [be] ‹so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.› 27 ‹For whether› [is] ‹greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth?› [is] ‹not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.›
• Acts 20:35 : 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‹It is more blessed to give than to receive.›
• Rom 12:10 : 10 [Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
• Rom 12:16 : 16 [Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
• Rom 15:1-3 : 1 ¶ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification. 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
• 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
• 1 Cor 9:19-22 : 19 ¶ For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
• 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 ¶ Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
• Gal 5:13 : 13 ¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• Gal 6:1-2 : 1 ¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
• Phil 2:2-8 : 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. 3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
• Heb 5:8-9 : 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
• Heb 12:2 : 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 ¶ Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
• Matt 20:26-28 : 26 ‹But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;› 27 ‹And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:› 28 ‹Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.›
• Mark 10:43-45 : 43 ‹But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:› 44 ‹And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.› 45 ‹For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.›