27 For who is greater, the one lying back at table or the one serving? Is it not the one lying back? Yet I am in your midst as the One Who is serving."
Luke 22:27 Cross References - CLV
Matthew 20:28
28 even as the Son of Mankind came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give His soul a ransom for many."
Luke 12:37
37 Happy are those slaves, whom the Lord, coming, will be finding watching. Verily, I am saying to you that He will be girding Himself about and causing them to recline, and, coming by, will be serving them."
Luke 17:7-9
7 Now who of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, who, on entering from the field, will be declaring to him, 'Come by immediately, lean back at table'?
8 But will he not be declaring to him, 'Make something ready for me. I should be dining. And, being girded, serve me till I should be eating and drinking, and after this you shall be eating and drinking.'"
9 Has that slave no thanks, seeing that he does what is prescribed? I presume not!"
John 13:5-16
5 Thereafter He is draining water into the basin, and begins washing the feet of the disciples and wiping them off with the cloth with which He was girded."
6 He is coming, then, to Simon Peter. And he is saying to Him, "Lord, Thou art washing my feet!"
7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you are not aware at present, yet you will know after these things."
8 Peter is saying to Him, "Under no circumstances shouldst Thou be washing my feet for the eon!Jesus answered him, "If ever I should not be washing you, you are having no part with Me."
9 Simon Peter is saying to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but the hands also and the head!"
10 Jesus is saying to him, "He who is bathed has no need, except to wash his feet, but is wholly clean. And you are clean, but not all."
11 For He was aware who is giving Him up. Therefore He said that "Not all of you are clean."
12 When, then, He washes their feet, and took His garments and leans back again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
13 You are shouting to Me 'Teacher!' and 'Lord!' and you are saying ideally, for I am."
14 If, then, I, the Lord and the Teacher, wash your feet, you also ought to be washing one another's feet."
15 For an example have I given you, that, according as I do to you, you also may be doing."
16 Verily, verily, I am saying to you, A slave is not greater than his lord, neither is an apostle greater than He Who sends him."
2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, because of you He became poor, that you, by His poverty, should be rich."