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NASB | John 13:15 "For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 13:15 "For I gave you [this as] an example, so that you should do [in turn] as I did to you. |
Bible Question: Why did christ wash the Deciples feet? What does it sybolise? |
Bible Answer: Ashes, You may also want to read 1 Samuel 25:40-42 and Luke 7:37-49. "To understand this fully, it is important that we do as John expects and familiarize ourselves with the synoptic narratives of the same event. When we do, we find there is a background to this action: the rivalry of the apostles. Curiously, Luke 22 tells us (v. 14) that when Jesus' "hour" (a curiously Johannine choice of words) had come he celebrated the sacrament of his imminent Passion and, in the very next scene, "A dispute also arose among them, which of them was to be regarded as the greatest" (Luke 22:24). This ghastly contrast of Jesus' sacrificial self-offering with the pettiness of the disciples is meant by Luke to make us feel the same way we would feel if a saint was on his deathbed and his children were outside the hospital room, arguing over the inheritance. John assumes we know this story when he tells us of Jesus' action in washing the disciples' feet and draws his moral from it. For his action is the action of a slave and the disciples are to imitate that, not the craving for power of the Gentile kings. But it is more than merely a lesson in behavior. It is also a reminder of our baptism. Jesus could have chosen any number of images to picture humble service. He chose washing. And John records it because he means to give instructions to the baptized (and the ordained, as the apostles were ordained) on the nature of the life to which they are called. This again, is an example of the way in which Jesus' sayings are, in a sense, riddles to which only the Church is answer. For Jesus' remark, " He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean" (v. 10) makes the most sense in light of Baptism and the sacrament of Reconciliation. In Baptism, we are made clean, yet we need to "wash our feet" in Reconciliation when we fall as we tend to do." copyright: Catholic Scripture Studies, The Gospel of John http://www.catholicexchange.com/ Emmaus |
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