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If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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Service is Imitation
To serve Jesus is to "follow" Him. Commentators emphasize that this isn't about inventing new religious duties but about imitating Christ's life. This means walking His path of self-sacrifice, humility, and obedience, even when it leads through suffering and trial, just as His path led to the cross.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Serve me. This means to be my disciple, or to be a Christian. Perhaps this was said to inform the Greeks (John 12:20) of the n…
If any man serve me (εαν εμο τις διακονη). Condition of third class again (εαν with present active subjunctive of διακονεω, keep o…
19th Century
Anglican
If any man serve me, let him follow me.—The close connection of John 12:23-25 makes it certain that the spiritual law of …
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Baptist
And he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me;
The best service …
In this verse, Jesus explained what hating one’s life means. The impending Cross would involve the disciples in the same way it would involve Jesus…
16th Century
Protestant
If any man serve me. So that death may not be excessively bitter and unpleasant to us, Christ invites us by His example to submit to it ch…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If any man serve, me Or is willing to be a servant of Christ, and to be esteemed as such;
let him…
When participating in holy ordinances, particularly the gospel passover, the great desire of our souls should be to see Jesus; to see him as ours, …
13th Century
Catholic
Having described the glory Christ received from the help of his friends and the devotion of the crowd, the Evangelist now describes the g…
