Johannes 13:12

12 Da er nun ihre Füße gewaschen hatte, nahm er wieder seine Kleider und setzte sich wieder nieder und sprach abermals zu ihnen: Wisset ihr, was ich euch getan habe?

Johannes 13:12 Meaning and Commentary

John 13:12

So after he had washed their feet
Not Peter's only, but the rest of the disciples also: some have thought, that he washed only the feet of some of them, and not all; but it seems, by this expression, that he performed this service to each of them: and when he had gone through it with everyone of them:

and had taken his garments,
and put them on,

and was sat down again;
at the table with his disciples, supper not being yet ended; when having done his work as a servant, he reassumes the air and authority of Lord and master, and begins to teach and instruct, into the design and use of what he had been doing, which he introduces by putting this question;

he said unto them, know ye what I have done to you?
They knew the outward action he had done to them, that he had washed their feet; but, as yet, they did not know the mystery of it, Christ's design in it, and what he would have them learn from it.

Johannes 13:12 In-Context

10 Spricht Jesus zu ihm: Wer gewaschen ist, bedarf nichts denn die Füße waschen, sondern er ist ganz rein. Und ihr seid rein, aber nicht alle.
11 (Denn er wußte seinen Verräter wohl; darum sprach er: Ihr seid nicht alle rein.)
12 Da er nun ihre Füße gewaschen hatte, nahm er wieder seine Kleider und setzte sich wieder nieder und sprach abermals zu ihnen: Wisset ihr, was ich euch getan habe?
13 Ihr heißet mich Meister und HERR und saget recht daran, denn ich bin es auch.
14 So nun ich, euer HERR und Meister, euch die Füße gewaschen habe, so sollt ihr auch euch untereinander die Füße waschen.
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