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Then he began to wash the disciples feet, drying them with the towel he had around him. 
John 13:5 NLT

This is so close. So personal.
Jesus with a bowl of water, going from person to person. 
My guess is you're not going to wash 12 people's feet with the same water, that after each person Jesus is discarding the dirty water and coming back with clean. 
I wonder how long this took?
An hour? Two hours? 
Foot washing may not have been unusual but it was not the teacher, not the masters work. 
Jesus is flipping the world upside down. 
Becoming a servant. 

"No", Peter protested, "you will never ever wash my feet!"
Jesus replied, "Unless I wash you, you won't belong to me."
John 13:8 NLT

Typical Peter happy to blurt out what others might be thinking! 
Yet Jesus is saying there's something deeper going on here. Deeper than the external work of servanthood and foot washing. 
Jesus is doing a servants work as a picture of what is going to happen next, as he becomes the servant. 
Becomes the servant of humanity, of Peter, of me, of you. 
And the only way for that to happen is by way of the cross. The cross is Jesus washing my feet. 
The cross is Jesus getting close, cleaning the dirt, drying my feet with his towel, disposing of the dirty water. 
The cross is Jesus the creator of it all becoming a servant, and my saviour.
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