The Baptist’s words continue a theme in the Prologue (1:6–8, 15), and betray extraordinary humility in the context of a society where a student was expected to do for his teacher whatever a slave would do—except take off his shoes.
If John the Baptist, the prophet of God who was commissioned to prepare the way for the Messiah was too lowly, too sinful, too vile to untie the strap from Jesus’ sandle...
Much less take the shoe off...
What are we too good to do, to sacrifice, to suffer for the sake of Christ’s bride the church?
