verse, as well as in the seventli and eighth. There is far more in many of His sayings, we may believe, than has ever yet been discovered.
It is striking to observe that even of His poor, weak, erring disciples Jesus says, " Ye are clean."
Bullinger observes that the words of the Lord's Prayer. " Forgive us our trespasses," are a daily confession of the very thing here mentioned, — viz., the need of daily washing of our feet.
Casaubon remarks that those who come out of a bath, as a matter of constant experience, only need to wash their feet, which, stepping on the ground as they come out, must needs contract some defilement. In Eastern countries, where batliing was very common, all could see the force of this.
Hengstenberg remarks, that " the expression, ' but not all/ was intended to pierce the conscience of Judas, whom the Re- deemer did not give up until the last good impulse died within him,"
The common idea that the " washing " here spoken of refers to the baptism, seems to me quite untenable. He that is washed must mean only " washed in a spiritual sense from his sins ; " as Psalm li. 4. Hengstenberg's discussion of the point is worth reading.
Burgon observes, " The traitor, Judas, though washed by the hands of Christ Himself, was filthy still."
11. — [For he knew...'betray Jiim, etc.] Our Lord's perfect fore- knowledge of His sufferings and the manner of them, and His thorough discernment of the real characters of all His disci- ples, are alike shown in this verse. He did not suffer because he did not foresee it, and was taken by surprise. He walked up to death knowing every step he was about to tread.
The sentence is an example of the explanatory glosses which are so characteristic of St. John's Gospel.
The Greek words rendered " who should betray Him," are literally, " the person betraying Him," in the past participle.
12. — [So after...was?ied...feet.] After the conversation between our Lord and Peter, the washing seems to have gone on without interruption. The disciples were accustomed to see their Mas- ter do things they did not understand, and they submitted in silence.
[And had taken... garments... set down again.'] This refers to His putting on again the long loose outer robe, which was laid aside on performing any action requiring exertion in the East. Then our Lord took His place once more at the table, and com- menced a discourse which seems to have ushered in the Lord's Supper. Whether the washing of the feet was meant, among