The Humility of Love

John gives an extended introduction to the events of Jesus’ last Passover celebration and the washing of the disciples’ feet—(a) The knowledge that the hour of His sacrifice and His return to the Father had come; (b) The hour revealing the extent of His love for His own; (c) The foreknowledge of Judas’s tragic and imminent betrayal; (d) The certainty of the divine origin and destiny of work He was doing—all this said to establish a stark contrast.