John 13:8

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Summary

John 13:8

Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

Thou shalt

If

General references

Matthew 10:36

Bible References

Thou shalt

then Peter taking him aside, began to expostulate with him, saying, God forbid, Sir, this should ever happen to you.

I won't, said he: but afterward be chang'd his mind, and went.

Peter thereupon said, tho' all the rest should abandon you, I never will.

Let no man condemn you, from an affectation of humility, in worshipping of Angels, boldly prying into matters which he knows nothing of, being vainly puft up with his Jewish conceits:

If

then coming to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, Lord, what! would you wash my feet?

Jesus answered, I tell thee, except a man be renewed by the spiritual baptism, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

why should you now delay? arise, be baptized, and cleansed from your sins, by invoking the name of the Lord.

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

to sanctify and purify her by the ablution of his word,

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

and indeed according to the law almost every thing is purified with blood, without the effusion of which, there is no remission of sins.

And indeed it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats, should take away the guilt of sin.

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood,

my Lord, answer'd I, you can tell. and he said to me, these are they who came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb.

General references

even a man's own domestics shall prove his foes.