Thursday, March 20, 2008

Maundy Thursday

John 13: 1, 4, 5, 14, 15, 34
Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that His time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, He now loved them to the very end....
He got up from the meal, removed His outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around Himself. He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel He had wrapped around himself....
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example– you should do just as I have done for you.
"I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

John 18: 3-9
They came to the orchard with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He told them, “I am he.” (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.) So when Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they retreated and fell to the ground. Then Jesus asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” Jesus replied, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.” He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, “I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

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