Jesus knowing that the Father
These words express the sense Christ had of his own greatness and
dignity as Mediator:
had given all things into his hands;
all the persons of the elect, all blessings both of grace and
glory for them, and power and authority over all other persons
and things, to make them subservient to his purposes:
and that he was come from God;
had his mission and commission, as man, from God; did not come of
himself, but he sent him:
and went to God;
or was going to him in a very little time, to sit at his right
hand, to have a name above every name, and to have angels,
authorities, and powers subject to him; which, as it shows his
high esteem with his Father, and his exalted character as
Mediator, so it greatly illustrates his wonderful humility, that
in the view, and under a sense and consideration of all this, he
should condescend to wash the feet of his disciples; of which an
account is given in the following verses.