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JOHN CHAPTER 13
Joh_13:1-17 Jesus washes his disciples feet; and exhorteth
them to follow his example of humility and charity.
Joh_13:18-30 He foretells the treachery of Judas, and points
him out to John by a token.
Joh_13:31-35 He speaketh of his glorification as near at hand,
and commandeth his disciples to love one another.
Joh_13:36-38 He forewarns Peter that he shall thrice deny him.
That this was the fourth passover after that he entered upon his public ministry is out of doubt, and the last he ever celebrated. We have taken notice of this evangelist’s mention of the other three: but how long what follows was before the passover, which is here expressed by
before the feast, is a great question: some will have it the day, others immediately before, as pro (the very same particle) is used. Luk_11:38, before dinner, and Luk_22:15, before I suffer. The resolution of it much depends upon another question as difficult, viz. What supper it is which is mentioned? Joh_13:2. Those who would be satisfied in these cases, may find a collection of what is said by most valuable interpreters in Mr. Pool’s Synopsis Criticorum, upon Mat_26:1-75. It is our happiness, that though some such knots occur in holy writ, yet they are about things in which our salvation is not concerned; so as without danger to our souls we may be ignorant of what is the truth about them. When Christ knew that the hour (which he had once or twice before said was not come) was now come, that he must die, rise again, and in a short time ascend to his Father; he having loved his disciples, not with a mutable, but with an unchangeable love; he resolves upon the washing of their feet, as a demonstration of that love.