Luke 22:27
22:27 For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table,
or the one who serves? Is it not
the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one
who serves.
John 13:4-17
13:4 he got up from the meal, removed
his outer clothes,
took a towel and tied it around himself.
13:5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.
13:6 Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
13:7 Jesus replied, “You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”
13:8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
13:9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”
13:10 Jesus replied, “The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you.”
13:11 (For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)
13:12 So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?
13:13 You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am.
13:14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet.
13:15 For I have given you an example – you should do just as I have done for you.
13:16 I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
13:17 If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Philippians 2:4-8
2:4 Each of you should be concerned
not only
about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
2:5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,
2:6 who though he existed in the form of God
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,
2:7 but emptied himself
by taking on the form of a slave,
by looking like other men,
and by sharing in human nature.
2:8 He humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
– even death on a cross!
Hebrews 5:8
5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.