John 13:8-11
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“No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”
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Peter is doing at this point what is socially fitting. He did not want his Master to wash his feet. Jesus’ response must be looked at in a deeper level.
To have part with Jesus means literally to share things with Him.
Part of this includes self denial in accepting death on a cross.
Jesus was saying unless you accept what was going to happen on the cross, there could be no relationship. Unless the Lamb of God has cleansed us, taken away our sin, he or she can have no part with Him.
Having part (meros) is having to do with an inheritance.
Luke 1
The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
In Jewish thought, it has to do with eschatological blessings.
Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Did Peter fully understand? Probably not, but he wanted to be linked with Jesus. The truest humility is to receive in reverence and with thanks, the gift of grace.
To have part of Christ or to be associated in Christ means to be partakers WITH Christ.
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
Allowing Christ to wash us means we yield to His direction, we trust Him to make us clean.
Matthew Henry said, “We cannot partake of His glory if we partake not of His merit and righteousness, and of His Spirit and Grace.
“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”
Why did Peter give an opposite answer to what he gave before?
Peter says to not just wash his feet, but his hands and his head as well.
Why do you think that Peter did this?
1 Thessalonians
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 13:1
Jesus answered, “A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”
The footwashing is a symbol here of a once-and-for-all act. Because of the cross, Jesus has provided for us a cleansing that is above all other cleansings. Jesus washes all our sins away.
Once you accept the cleansing of Jesus, you are clean.
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
There is also the symbolism of a daily cleansing. The custom of the day would have had the disciples already bathed before supper and their feet dirty as a result of walking over to the place where they ate. We pray in the Lord’s prayer, “Forgive our debts...” This indicates the idea of a daily cleansing.
Jesus adds, “though not not every one of you.”
For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
Jesus is capable of separating the clean from the unclean.
Proverbs 30:1
those who are pure in their own eyes
and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”