There is a really interesting word at the start of verse 4 - "so". Verse 3 says that "Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God". Jesus knew that HE is the supreme power. In heaven and on earth. All of creation is under his command. The universe. Everything seen and unseen. All knowledge, all power, all things.
"SO he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him."
So...what? Is anything more precisely opposite of what we know of power? Human power, that is. Jesus, knowing that he was powerful beyond anything that we could even imagine in the worst fit of megalomania, humbled himself and washed the feet of his disciples. To include Judas, who would betray him; who may have been possessed by Satan at that very moment (Lk 22:3). He washed their feet. Truly, Jesus "set an example" (v15) for his disciples. And he commands us to do the same for one another. "Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them."
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