Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. John 13: 14 People hate having other people wash their feet. Women who get manicures probably wash their feet before they go to their appointment and make sure they have clean shoes to put on. At least that is me! This act of servanthood is a very humbling act of servanthood to one another. Let’s read John 13:1-17 together, It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the…
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Passover Week Devotions: Jesus Feet Anointed With Oil
Day 1: Friday Before: Arrival in Bethany Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at the table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one the his disciples (he who was about to betray Him) said, ” Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii…
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Jesus Washes Disciples Feet
rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet? Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand now.” Peter said to him, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” John 13:4-17 Washing one’s feet, to some is a disgusting…