Magnify Jesus: October 21 = Life of Christ #210 (John 13:1-20) Jesus Washes the Disciple's Feet

Jesus Washes the Disciple's Feet
John 13:1-20

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

John 13:1–20

¹Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

²Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him. ³Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God. ⁴So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself. ⁵Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.

⁶He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

⁷Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

^8a“You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.

^8bJesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

¹⁰“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹For He knew who would betray Him. This is why He said, “You are not all clean.”

¹²When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His robe, He reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? ¹³You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am. ¹⁴So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.

¹⁶“I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. ¹⁸I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: ‘The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.’

¹⁹“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He. ²⁰I assure you: The one who receives whomever I send receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”^{^[1]}

^{^[1]} Knight, G. W. (2001). A simplified harmony of the Gospels (pp. 208–210). Holman Bible Publishers.

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