Giovanni 13:12

12 Come dunque ebbe loro lavato i piedi ed ebbe ripreso le sue vesti, si mise di nuovo a tavola, e disse loro: Capite quel che v’ho fatto?

Giovanni 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.

Giovanni 13:12 In-Context

10 Gesù gli disse: Chi è lavato tutto non ha bisogno che d’aver lavati i piedi; è netto tutto quanto; e voi siete netti, ma non tutti.
11 Perché sapeva chi era colui che lo tradirebbe; per questo disse: Non tutti siete netti.
12 Come dunque ebbe loro lavato i piedi ed ebbe ripreso le sue vesti, si mise di nuovo a tavola, e disse loro: Capite quel che v’ho fatto?
13 Voi mi chiamate Maestro e Signore; e dite bene, perché lo sono.
14 Se dunque io, che sono il Signore e il Maestro, v’ho lavato i piedi, anche voi dovete lavare i piedi gli uni agli altri.
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