John 13:8
Peter said to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7Jesus answered and said to him: What I am doing you know not now, but you will know hereafter.
9Simon Peter said to him: Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.
Cross References
Matthew 16:22And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying: Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be to thee.
Matthew 26:33Peter answered and said to him: Though all shall be offended at thee, yet will I never be offended.
John 3:5Jesus answered: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 22:16And now, why do you delay? Arise, and be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on John 13:2-18
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience. 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from… Read the whole commentary →