14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. Ver. 14. Ye ought also to wash one another’s feet ] What so great matter is it then to salute others, to seek reconciliation with them, &c. Angels think not themselves too good to serve the saints; kings and queens shall bow down to them with their faces toward the earth, and lick up the dust of their feet,Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 49:23 . read more
I then: Matthew 20:26-Hosea :, Mark 10:43-Romans :, Luke 22:26, Luke 22:27, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Philippians 2:5-Ruth :, Hebrews 5:8, Hebrews 5:9, Hebrews 12:2 ye also: Acts 20:35, Romans 12:10, Romans 12:16, Romans 15:1-Leviticus :, 1 Corinthians 8:13, 1 Corinthians 9:19-Song of Solomon :, 2 Corinthians 10:1, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:2, Philippians 2:2-Deuteronomy :, 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 5:5 Reciprocal: Judges 19:21 - they washed 2 Samuel 11:11 - my lord 2 Kings 3:11 -... read more
If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.Ye ought also to wash one another's feet — And why did they not? Why do we not read of any one apostle ever washing the feet of any other? Because they understood the Lord better. They knew he never designed that this should be literally taken. He designed to teach them the great lesson of humble love, as well as to confer inward purity upon them. And hereby he teaches us, 1. In every possible way... read more
14. Ought to wash one another’s feet The pious Moravians, even at the present day, practice the ceremony of washing each other’s feet. But there is little reason to suppose that this slight language of our Lord is used to institute a perpetual sacrament of this kind. The words bear no comparison with the full and solemn precision with which the Lord’s Supper is instituted as a modified continuation of the ancient Passover. Nor is there any indication in the New Testament writings, nor in... read more
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The Biblical Illustrator - John 13:1-19
John 13:1-19Now before the feast of the Passover.--A three-fold marvelI. A MARVELLOUS LOVE: that of Christ for His own. Marvellous in respect of 1. Its time. (1) Before the feast of the Passover, when His thoughts might have been occupied with its memories. (2) Before His departure, when He might have been absorbed in the contemplation of death or the heaven beyond. (3) Before His exaltation, when the vision of the coming glory might have fixed His Spirit’s eye. 2. Its intensity--“unto the... read more