Foot washing is the Lord kneeling to wash the disciples’ feet.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
At the supper Jesus rose, laid aside His outer garments, and washed the disciples’ feet. Peter refused, then asked for hands and head as well. Jesus said the one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet. When He had washed them, He said they ought to wash one another’s feet, for He had given an example. A widow on the list is known for washing the feet of the saints. The church has sometimes kept the basin as a rite. The text’s charge is the example: the Lord served, so His people serve.
- The washing is on the night He was betrayed, before the Supper words in John.
- Peter’s refusal is answered. If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.
- The example is humility, not a new way to be saved.
He poured water into a basin and washed the disciples’ feet.
If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.
You also ought to wash one another’s feet.
- Jesus washed the disciples’ feet on the night of the supper.
- Peter had to receive it to have a share with Him.
- The bathed man still needs his feet washed.
- The command is to do as He did.
- Washing the saints’ feet marks an enrolled widow.
- The example is service. Do not turn it into a second gospel.
- The Night – Before the betrayal.
- The Basin – The Lord kneeling.
- The Refusal – Peter.
- The Share – No share if He does not wash.
- The Example – Wash one another’s feet.
- The Widow – Known for this service.
- John 13:4-5 – “He laid aside his outer garments… and began to wash the disciples’ feet.”
- John 13:8 – “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
- John 13:10 – “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet.”
- John 13:14-15 – “You also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example.”
- John 13:17 – “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”
- 1 Timothy 5:10 – “If she has washed the feet of the saints.”
- Luke 7:44 – “You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears.”
- John 13:34-35 – “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you.”
- Philippians 2:5-7 – “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus… taking the form of a servant.”
- Matthew 20:28 – “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.”
He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet.
If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.
You also ought to wash one another’s feet.
The Lord knelt. The example is service. Receive His washing, and wash one another’s feet.
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