John 13:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Got up from supper, took off His garments, and taking a [servant's] towel, He fastened it around His waist.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments; and he took a towel, and girded himself.

Common English Bible

⁴ So he got up from the table and took off his robes. Picking up a linen towel, he tied it around his waist.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ he rose up from the meal, and he set aside his vestments, and when he had received a towel, he wrapped it around himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments, and having taken a towel, girded himself.

John 13:4 Cross References

2 Kings 3:11

And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may inquire of the Lord?” Then one of the king of Israel's servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”

Luke 12:37

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them.

Luke 17:7

“Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down at table’?

Luke 17:8

Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and gird yourself and serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink’?

Luke 22:27

For which is the greater, one who sits at table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves.

John 13:12

When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

1 John 3:11

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,