But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.
Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
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