Luke 22:7-14. John 13:1-17
JESUS said to His disciples, ‘I am soon going to be killed, but before I die I shall eat a supper with you in Jerusalem.’
Then Jesus said to Peter and John, ‘Go and get the supper ready.’ But they said, ‘Where shall we get it ready?’ Jesus had no house in Jerusalem, but He knew how to find a room.
So Jesus said to Peter and John, ‘Go into Jerusalem, and you will meet a man carrying a jug. Go after him; he will go into a house. The master of the house will lend Me a room. Tell him that I am going to die, and that I want to eat a supper with My disciples.’
Then Peter and John went into Jerusalem. Who did they meet?
A man carrying a jug.
They followed him. He went into a house. Peter and John went in after him, and they said to him, ‘Jesus wants a room to eat a supper in with His disciples, before His death.’
Then the master took them upstairs and showed them a large room. There was a table in it and seats all around the table. There was a jug, and a basin to wash their feet in, and a cup and dishes.
Peter and John got some bread and wine and other things and made the supper ready. Then they went back and told Jesus (who was in the country, not far away) that supper was ready. So Jesus and all His disciples came to the house in the evening. They went upstairs, and they all sat down. Jesus loved John better than all the rest, and John sat next to Jesus.
After they had been a little while at supper, Jesus got up and took a towel and tied it round His waist. He took a jug and poured water into a basin, and He began to wash His disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel round His waist. But when He came to Peter, Peter said, ‘Thou shalt never wash my feet.’
Peter thought it was too kind of Jesus to wash his feet, as if He was a servant. Jesus was not proud, but He loved to be kind to His disciples. Then Jesus said to Peter, ‘If I wash you not, you cannot be Mine. But I have made you clean already.’ Jesus had made Peter’s heart clean. Now Peter was glad that Jesus should wash his feet.
All the disciples had clean hearts, except Judas. His heart was full of wickedness; Satan was in it. Yet Jesus washed Judas’ feet. He was kind even to wicked Judas, who hated Him.
When Jesus had washed all the disciples’ feet, He sat down again and began to talk to them. He said, ‘Do you know what I have done to you? I have washed your feet, though I am your Lord and Master. I wish to teach you to be as kind to each other as I have been to you.’
When the sad hour was almost come
That Jesus must depart,
He gathered in an upper room
Those dearest to His heart.
Ah, great was their astonishment,
When, rising from His seat,
Upon the floor He lowly bent
To wash His servants’ feet.
Beside the board again He sat,
And thus expressed His mind:
‘If I, your Lord, upon you wait,
O, should not you be kind?
‘O, let the love that I have shown
By you remembered be;
And by your love let it be known
That you belong to Me.’
Questions
Did Jesus have a house in Jerusalem?
How did He get a room to eat a supper in with His disciples before He died?
Who did He send to find the room?
How did Peter and John find out which house they were to go to?
What things were in the room?
Who sat next to Jesus at supper?
How many people were at the supper?
Why did Jesus pour water into a basin?
Why did Peter not like Jesus to wash his feet?
Had Jesus made His disciples’ hearts clean?
Was Judas’ heart clean?
Why did Jesus wash His disciples’ feet?
What commandment did Jesus give to His disciples?
Christ’s last command:
A verse from the Bible for you to learn:
This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. John 15:12.