2. Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. 2 It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. (Continued)

3. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. 4 So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.

4.  John 13 – Jesus is in the last moments of his life. He was spending his last hours with his disciples and friends.  The disciples were in a different frame of mind. The disciples were stuck on the controversy of which of them would be greatest in the kingdom. (Matthew 20:20-21)

5.  Matthew 18:1-4 “At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

6.  Jesus spent his last hours with the disciples showing them what true greatness is and what it’s all about. “Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.” (John 13:1)

7.  The custom of washing feet in the day of Jesus when entered someone’s home.  The account of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet.

8. “Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. So he got up from the table, took off his robe…” (John 13:3-4a)

9.  John 13: 4b-5 “…wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.”  Towel – servant  Water Basin – Holy Spirit and the church

10.  Jesus challenge: And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. (John 13:14)  The pathway to true greatness involves washing feet, serving people and becoming a towel.