John 13:2 is part of the preamble to the narration of a special act of love performed by Jesus at the beginning of the last day.
John 13:1 should lead us to expect the narration of such an act.
John 13:2 should reveal for us the need for such an act.
John 13:3 should justify for us the performance of the act.
John 13:4 begins for us the narration of the special act of love performed by Jesus at the beginning of the last day, the day when Jesus was to raise that up again which was lost. (John 6:39)
Here is a commentary on the special act of love performed by Jesus that I published on my blog, “Judas Iscariot: Disciple Whom Jesus Loved.”
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
How Think Ye, If A Man Have Twelve?
Arising from the table, Jesus left the eleven to go into the wilderness to search out and return the one which had gone astray. Laying aside his garments, girding himself with a towel, pouring water into a basin, and beginning to wash the feet of his disciples: these were the steps Jesus took on his journey to the wilderness.
“You are not all clean,” he said, but he was beyond the range within which the eleven could hear and comprehend his words. “You are not all clean,” his words echoed clearly in the wilderness, but only the one whose heel was lifted up against him heard and comprehended those words, because he alone was in that wilderness where Jesus was calling. The spirit of the words of Jesus was not, “Now you have done it,” but the spirit of his words was, “Come.” They were the words of the good shepherd.
His sheep heard his voice and came, and Jesus washed the heel that was lifted up against him. Thereafter, his sheep followed him to the finish. When Judas heard the voice of Satan within him again, he heard it as the voice of a stranger. Satan was opposed to those things which Jesus said must happen at Jerusalem. God, not Satan, delivered his son for the life of the world.
I offer this understanding of the foot washing only in my own name.
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Don’t blame Satan. Praise God.
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