Quotes About Service

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peterís brother, said to Him,

Then Jesus took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.

Then they inquired, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciplesí feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

“Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”

“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”

Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?

You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one anotherís feet.

I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.