So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
In these words our Saviour declares to his disciples his intention and design in washing of their feet: namely, to teach them, by his example, the duty of humility: that as he had performed that act of abasement towards them, so should they be ready to perform all offices of love and humble condescension one towards another: Behold, I have given you an example, that...
Verse 12. Know ye what, &c. Do you know the meaning or design of what I have done unto you?
So after he had washed their feet,.... Not Peter's only, but the rest of the disciples also: some have thought, that he washed only the feet of some of them, and not all; but it seems, by this expression, that he performed this service to each of them: and when he had gone through it with everyone of them: and had taken his garments, and...