Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

 Good morning. Just go back to the basics of your relationship with God. Now [before] the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. I bracketed the word “before” to emphasize that it does not say during the feast. During supper: notice that it does not say during the Passover meal. People have said various things to try to make these verses and the ones that follow to agree with the other gospels that this was the Passover meal. Some have said that this was referring to the Passover meal, and others that they ate something prior to the Passover meal; which to me does not make sense. Back to John: during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself. He then began to wash the disciples’ feet. When He came to Peter, Peter said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter. Never shall you wash my feet! Washing someone’s feet was the most menial of menial jobs, and was normally done by slaves. Many times people were just given a container of water so that they could wash their own feet. If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me. If having his feet washed by Jesus meant that he had a part with Jesus, Peter wanted to have even more of a part with Jesus. Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you. When we get saved and then come in contact with the things of the world and even sin, we don’t need to get saved all over again, we just need to “wash our feet“.  Help us to know what You want us to do. Give us peace of mind.

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