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Joh 13:1. Πρό, before) immediately before, the day before [on the fourth day of the week, Wednesday.-V. g.] This Gospel is divided into three parts, of which the sum and substance is: I have come from the Father; I have been in the world; I go to the Father.[329]-ἀγαπήσας) having embraced in His love. [This little verse contains as it were a general introduction to those things which are narrated both subsequently in this chapter and in the following ones.-Harm., p. 489.]-τοὺς ἰδίους, His own) Joh 13:18, “I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen.” This is in antithesis to those alien to Him, ch. Joh 12:37-41.-[330]ἠγάπησεν) He loved, whilst He conferred on them perfect purity and humility of soul, and so thereby the qualifications needed for discharging the duties of their embassy in the world after the departure of Jesus: Joh 13:10, “He that is washed-is clean every whit;” 14, “If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet;” 20, “He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth Me.”
[329] εἰδώς, knowing) So also at ver. 3, “Jesus knowing that,” etc.-V. g.
[330] εἰς τἐλος, even to the end) even to His very ‘departure.’ Now that He has finished His words to the multitude, Jesus enters upon so much the closer terms of intimacy with His disciples.-V. g.
ἡ ὥρα, His hour) concerning which He had spoken already at ch. Joh 12:27, “Father, save Me from this hour, hut,” etc.-Harm., p. 489.
ἐκ-πρός, from-to) from this evil world to His own everlasting joys.-V. g.