Till the End

John 13:1 came to me this morning. It is a picture of Jesus I love. Something that he had recorded by John thousands of years a go. Yet one day he whispered it in my ear, one day it stuck me and revealed more of him to my heart.

"It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love."

After this Jesus goes on to wash his disciples feet, literally. And soon afterward he is offered up on the cross to wash their souls.What is love? It is that a friend would lay down his life. What is the full extent of the Father's love? He bows then and washes the feet of his friends. Is this his way of saying, "I am about to die? I am about to wash you clean, not just physically but I am about to wash your soul. I am about to be like a lamb led to slaughter. My blood will wash you and your descendants."

"He loved them to the end." This is what some translations say. He loved them with everything he had, he poured himself out completely. There was nothing left, he loved them unto death. Jesus is the very definition of love, love till the end.

Washing the feet of his disciples, was the fullest extent of the love of God.

Who is this man?