Verily, verily I say to you, The slave is not greater than his Lord, nor the messenger than He that sent him. Foreseeing the contention about the chief place which would soon follow, Christ insists on the humility which He is inculcating on His apostles. Ver. 17. If Ye know these things, blessed shall ye be if ye do them. If you know these things and who is ignorant that a master is greater than his slave? you shall be blessed if, as you know them, you also act up to your knowledge in practice. Blessed in hope, though not yet in actuality; blessed ye shall be after death if until then ye continue to do these things, and persevere in following Me, as I know that ye all will persevere excepting only Judas. And so, to indicate this exception, He adds,

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