John 13:8
Peter said to him, “Yoʋ shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash yoʋ, yoʋ have no part with me.”
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7Jesus answered him, “What I am doing yoʋ do not now understand, but afterward yoʋ will understand.”
9Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”
Cross References
Matthew 16:22So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall certainly not happen to yoʋ.”
Matthew 26:33Peter answered him, “Even if everyone else falls away because of yoʋ, I will never fall away.”
John 3:5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to yoʋ, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 22:16And now why do yoʋ delay? Rise and be baptized and wash away yoʋr sins, calling upon 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 →