Then cometh he to Simon Peter
After having washed the feet of some of the disciples, as is
thought by some interpreters, and particularly the feet of Judas,
without any repulse; though others are of opinion that he began
with Peter, who modestly, and out of reverence to him, refuses to
be washed by him:
and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my
feet!
he speaks as one surprised and astonished that Christ should
offer to do any such thing to him; that he, who was the Son of
the living God, should wash the feet of such a sinful man as he
was; that those hands, with which he had wrought such miracles,
as the opening the eyes of the blind, cleansing lepers, and
raising the dead, should be employed in washing his defiled feet,
the meaner and inferior parts of his body; this he thought was
greatly below his dignity and character, and too much to be done
by him to such a worthless creature as he was.