John 13:1-7
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It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
Jesus recognized that His end is near and is getting His house in order.
Have you every heard someone’s last wishes expressed?
Jesus recognized His time was near. We learn from that Jesus was making preparations for His APPOINTED TIME.
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
We see in other passages the heavenly time table:
“Dear woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.
He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.
Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
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It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
Jesus was returning to His Father.
I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
John 16
We learn more of the relationship Jesus had with His disciples.
“Having loved His own who were in the world”
How did Jesus love His own?
Jesus didn’t have children but He adopted these as His own.
He had fellowship with them.
He taught them.
He talked with them.
He lived with them.
He cared for them.
He loved them.
Who are you investing your life into that way?
In spite of the fact that the disciples weren’t the brightest crayons in the box, Jesus loved them just as they were. He challenged them. He helped them grow. He even rebuked them…yet never stopped loving them.
This is not true of only the 12 disciples, as these 12 were not only disciples but representatives of the entire world that would follow Jesus. When we follow Jesus, we devote ourselves to Him as His people- His own.
Jesus has a love for the world.
He demonstrated this for the discipline and continues through us.
Jesus loves with an everlasting love.
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
“He now showed them the full extent of His love.”
An everlasting love in its fullest extent is a love everlasting.
The fullest extent of His love is one that is inseparable from the One that gives this love.
Jesus loved them to completion, to the fullest, all the way to the end.
Jesus having loved His own is carefully outlined here in this chapter:
His humility and service,
His teaching,
His death, .
The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
In the midst of the greatest time of fellowship, the devil is at work.
The word PROMPTED (beblekotos) means to throw, cast, put. These are the same words in the description of .
Ephesians 6:16
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Judas was an unbeliever. We learn this from
Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him.”
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
Judas did not have a shied of faith to ward off Satan’s attack.
By the way, Judas was prompted not compelled. Not all that follow Jesus are His own.
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
Jesus had been given all and had power over all. He is the possessor of heaven and earth.
“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
All things means His rule is complete. He lordship is absolute.
“He came from God.” Further indication that Jesus was with God from the beginning.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus was born into the world but before the world was born.
Jesus came for God as the Son of God.
Note all the prophets of the Old Testament were raised up and worked for God. Jesus came directly from God and He was returning to God.
Jesus was going back to the glory He had left.
Jesus knew all this. He intentionally gets up and gives a surprising act of grace. In fact, the wording indicates that because of the fact Jesus knew that the Father put all things in His power, that He was from God and was returning to God, He got up and performed a selfless act.
What Jesus knew helped determine what He did.
so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
Christ is demonstrating the role of a servant:
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
This is contrary to what the disciples wanted.
Remember their greed?
Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
“What is it you want?” he asked.
She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”
“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”
“We can,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”
When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers.
Matthew 20:2
Speaks of their desire to sit beside Jesus in the Kingdom.
They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.
They had been arguing who among them was the greatest. A similar argument is recorded in .
However, Jesus revealed here that He was a servant:
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
The disciples had seen Jesus’ feet anointed by the woman with oil.
Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
It was a mark of honor for a host to provide a servant to wash the dust off a guest’s feet. There are several mentions in the Bible of washing one’s feet.
She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “Here is your maidservant, ready to serve you and wash the feet of my master’s servants.”
Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”
“Tell me, teacher,” he said.
“Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.”
“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.
Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the saints, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
1 Timothy
Jesus washed the feet and dried them. This tells me that He is all about completing the task, seeing it all the way to the end.
Some wonder if Jesus washed all the disciples’ feet. Nothing appears to show it was just a few. This means He would have washed the feet of Judas as well.
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
The way this is structured in the Greek shows Peter saying, “Are YOU going to wash MY feet?” Jesus wasn’t supposed to be the one that served. Peter was speaking out loud perhaps for the rest of the disciples who were in shock having watched this.
Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
We are often called and told to do something and we question it. It is best to trust and obey.
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
Abraham had faith and obeyed.
Jesus gives us assurance and the hope that we will know what we need to know.