NOTES for Ac 13:13-25
Before us are words of Jesus (John 13:16) that can provoke different reactions. On the one hand, how could it be otherwise? Can a servant and a messenger be greater than their masters? But on the other hand, how often pride and the desire to exalt oneself arise in the soul of the one carrying out an assignment. Sadly, this also happens in our relationships with God... These words evaporate from our minds, and we want to act on our own, without remaining under any authority. And what joy it is when the heart agrees with God's will, and the messenger brings not his own message but the message of the One who sent him, and the servant works together with the Master.
Jesus says this very thing: "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them" (John 13:17). And blessed is the heart that does not wish to exalt itself and thirsts to fulfill the Lord's will. Then the one who receives such a person receives Jesus Himself, since He abides in him (John 6:56).