John 13:1

Knowing His hour to return to the Father had come, Jesus loved His own to the very end. It introduces the upper room with the theme of His full, sacrificial love.

Cross-references · 39

• John 12:23Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
• John 13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
• John 16:28I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• John 18:4Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
• John 17:1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
• Eph 5:25–26Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
• John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• John 17:16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
• 1 Cor 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 6:11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• John 17:5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
• Matt 26:45Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• John 11:9–10Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
• John 17:9–11I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
• John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
• Mark 14:1–2It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
• Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
• John 11:55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
• Luke 22:1–2Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
• Luke 9:51It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,
• John 14:28You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
• John 17:13–14But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
• Matt 26:2–5“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
• Luke 13:32–33He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
• John 15:13–14Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
• Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
• Rom 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
• John 7:30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
• John 7:6Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
• John 16:5–7But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
• John 6:4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
• John 8:20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

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