45 Days To Read the Gospel Challenge: The Gospel of John Chapter 13 – A New Commandment

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Isaiah 9:6 KJV“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son, is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

 

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Before starting this Course:

 

 

Overview of The Gospel of John:

The Gospel of John is written by one of Jesus Christ’s disciples, John, the son of Zebedee. This Gospel is 21 Chapters long.  John is described as the “Disciple of Whom Jesus loved”.  It has been determined by biblical scholars that John wrote The Gospel of John (also known as “According to John”).

  It was written around A.D. 80-90, about 50 years after he witnesses Jesus’ earthly ministry under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and as an eyewitness in composing the gospel. He is not John the Baptist. However, in this book, John the Baptist is discussed.   

The Gospel of John explains who Jesus Christ is before creation. It establishes his deity as Creator of the World, The Father (I AM), and is the long-awaited Messiah, the Son of God in the flesh.

Its purpose is to explain that even though Jesus is the Creator and God (I AM), believers are to understand that Jesus is the Son of God that came in the flesh and yet while we were sinners, died for our sins and rose again to become Savior of the World-reconnecting us to God. That is why we pray to the father in Jesus Christ’s name. 

Defeating death and sin by the shedding of his blood and life, Jesus gives the gift of everlasting life with repentance. That by believing you may have life in his name (20:31)  John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” 

God is omnipresent meaning he can be in more than one place at the same time. He can be on earth (flesh) and in heaven (spirit) at the same time. 

 Revelation 19:6  “And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”  

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son, is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

 

 

The Gospel of John Chapter 13 – A New Commandment

 

45 Days To Read the Gospel Challenge: The Gospel of John Chapter 13 – A New Commandment

 

Time: 35 minutes to complete lesson: 20 minutes to read the entire post and take the interactive quiz, additional 15 minutes to review video resources and comment on social media.

 

 

 

Overview of Chapter Thirteen

In Chapter Thirteen, we explore the events leading up to the Passover. 

Jesus, is aware that His time to return to the Father is near, exemplifies the depth of His love by performing a humble act—washing the feet of His disciples. This act serves as a powerful lesson in humility, a trait highly esteemed by Jesus. He then gives a new commandment, emphasizing the importance of loving one another.

The chapter also reveals Jesus’ foreknowledge of the future as He predicts the betrayal by one disciple, who will lead the Pharisees to Him, and the denial by another, who will disown Him three times before the rooster crows.

Through these predictions, Jesus is glorified, showcasing that God knows all and that His plan is predestined.

 

 

Objectives Chapter Thirteen (You will learn…)  

A. Jesus washed the feet of his disciples as a demonstration of how we are to treat each other. 

B. A new commandment is issued that fulfills the law.

C. The Lord is predestine and knows all things. He predicts what two disciples will do before time. The scripture is to be fulfilled, prophesy.

 

 

Outline for Chapter Thirteen

A. Jesus washes his disciples’ feet; and exhorts them to humility and brotherly love.

B. He foretells that one of them will betray him. The Son of man glorified.

C. The new commandment is to love one another.

D. Jesus tells Peter that he will deny him three times, and a crock will crow on the third time.  Jesus shows he is predestine and knows all things supernaturally.

 

 

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Highlights of Gospel of John- Chapter Thirteen (KJV)  Answers to Objectives and Activity-Questions.

 

 

 

 Highlights of Gospel of John- Chapter Thirteen (KJV)  Answers to Objectives and Activity-Questions.

 

A. Jesus washed the feet of his disciples as a demonstration of how we are to treat each other.  John 13: 1-17

 

¹Now 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. 

²And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; 

³Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

⁴He rise from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 

⁵After that he pour water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

 ⁶Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

 ⁷Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou know not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 

⁸Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. 

⁹Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 

¹⁰Jesus saith to him, He that is washed need not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

⁷Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knownot now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 

⁸Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. 

⁹Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 

¹⁰Jesus saith to him, He that is washed need not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

 ¹¹For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. 

¹²So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

 ¹³Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.   

¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 

¹⁵For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 

¹⁶Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

 ¹⁷If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

 

 

B. The Lord is predestine and knows all things as he predicts what two disciples will do before time. John 13: 18-21, John 13:37-38 (KJV)

¹⁸I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eat bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 

¹⁹Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

²⁰Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receive whomsoever I send receive me; and he that receive me receive him that sent me. 

²¹When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

²²Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. 

²³Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. 

²⁴Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. 

²⁵He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? 

²⁶Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 

²⁷And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.

 ²⁷And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. 

²⁸Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.

 ²⁹For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. 

³⁰He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

 

 

 

C. A new commandment is issued that fulfills the law.   John 13:31-35(KJV)

³¹Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

 ³²If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 

³³Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

 ³⁴A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

 ³⁵By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

 ³⁶Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 

³⁷Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. 

³⁸Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

 

 

Interactive Quiz

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Call to salvation:

 

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Romans 10:9-10  9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 

John 3:5-6  5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is the Spirit.