Today, I am reading and commenting on John 12-13.

When we read the account of Jesus washing His disciples feet we rarely truly understand what was going on here on the visceral level which the disciples (and many of those who read this when it was first written) would have understood it.  If we look at the account of the woman who anointed Jesus in Luke we get a little better understanding of it.  And, if we do not fully understand the symbolism of Jesus washing His disciples feet, we will not fully understand the lesson He gives His disciples about it when He was finished.  Jesus is our Teacher and our Lord (another thing which we do not fully understand today in the same way that those who first read the Gospels did).  If He did the demeaning service of washing His disciples feet, then we should put ourselves into demeaning situations to serve our Brothers and Sisters in Christ, and not just them, but also those whom Christ is calling to Him.  I want to highlight one other message which Jesus makes while washing His disciples feet.  He implies that they were physically clean, only their feet were dirty.  Jesus uses that comparison as a metaphor that even if we can clean our spiritual selves we still need Him to clean the dirtiest part of ourselves.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.