13:12
So far a lot of the discussion has been about the parallel between the foot washing, and the cross. This does not mean that the foot washing was not important in its own right, it most certainly was important and attention now focuses on this aspect. So Jesus continued with His washing of their feet, and when He had finished He put His outer garment back on and resumed His place. He than asked them if they had understood what He had just done?
13:13,14
Now the teaching is explicitly on the practical serving of one another. First, He reminds them that they call Him “Teacher and Lord”, and they were right to do so. The teaching on servanthood does not do away with positions of authority, it does radically alter the way that authority works. And Jesus has just shown them how it works. Although He is Lord of All, He was prepared to do the most menial of tasks. So we should not consider any task to be “beneath us”.
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