John 13:3

Jesus acted in full awareness that the Father had given all things into His hands and that He had come from and was returning to God. It shows that His humble service flowed from, not despite, His supreme authority.

Cross-references · 21

• John 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
• Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
• Heb 1:2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
• Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• Eph 1:21–22far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
• John 16:27–28for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
• Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
• 1 Cor 15:27For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
• Heb 2:8–9You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.
• John 7:33Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• John 17:5–8Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
• John 5:22–27For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
• John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
• Luke 10:22Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
• Acts 2:36“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
• John 7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
• John 17:11–13I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
• John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

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