How does washing dirty feet impact you? Jesus’s example would not be a leadership technique documented in a Harvard Business Review. I wonder what Jesus may have said to each disciple, as He looked into their eyes, cleaning their feet. His attention to detail with each disciple was matched by His compassion. Maybe you could have heard a pin drop in the room because of the depth of atmosphere. Jesus’s love and example were overwhelming considering the crucifixion was ahead.
“The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.“ - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
“When Jesus was done washing the disciples’ feet, He said in effect, “You want joy in your life, Christian? Keep your relationship with God current and clean. Confess wrong thoughts and action.” To have fellowship with Jesus you must deal daily with sin. “If we confess our sins” (1 John 1:9) means that you put your feet in His hands for Him to wash. Until you do, Jesus says you can’t have fellowship with Him.
What’s more, if Jesus is your Lord, wash one another’s feet. Instead of beating a fallen brother, go try to restore him. When you do that, you’re washing feet.
Into this beautiful scene, our attention now turns to the greatest crime of the ages—Judas’ betrayal of Jesus. We do not witness a man losing his spiritual life, but rather this scene reveals Judas never had any spiritual life to begin with.” - J Vernon McGee
“ “None of the disciples were getting down there to wash one another's feet. They were more interested in and who could sit closest to Jesus. It's a powerful example of his love.
It's a shocking picture of his humility. It pictures his servanthood.”
“It's a striking picture of his love for his enemies. Yes, he even washed Judas' feet, the one who would betray him. And in doing all these things, Jesus is welcoming his disciples into his messianic, redemptive community.”
“Now, so far, this passage has been beautiful. Again, intimate, tender, seeing the love, humility, and servant spirit of Jesus. But then the passage has a haunting ending.” - Paul David Tripp
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