zSee Matt. 11:29
Genesis 18:4
4Let a alittle water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,Genesis 19:2
2and said, “My lords, bplease turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night cand wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, d“No; we will spend the night in the town square.”Genesis 24:32
32So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave estraw and fodder to the camels, and there was fwater to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.Luke 7:44
44Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; gyou gave me no water for my feet, but hshe has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.John 13:4-17
4rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, itied it around his waist. 5Then he jpoured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 kJesus answered him, “What I am doing lyou do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 mPeter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, n“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, oexcept for his feet, ▼▼Some manuscripts omit except for his feet
but is completely clean. And qyou ▼▼The Greek words for you in this verse are plural
are clean, sbut not every one of you.” 11 tFor he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.” 12When he had washed their feet and uput on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, v“Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 wYou call me xTeacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, yyou also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, zthat you also should do just as I have done to you. 16Truly, truly, I say to you, aaa servant ▼
▼Greek bondservant
is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17If you know these things, acblessed are you if you do them.
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