'Time is Running Out'

Well, yesterday was alrite, went for Maundy Thurday service, which had something out of the ordinary for me: A feet washing session, to mirror Jesus' last moments with his disciples. He washed each feet of all his disciples, to show that he came to serve and not to serve.

John 13: 1-17
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.

The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel round his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped round him.

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Jesus replied, "You do not realise now what i am doing, but later you will understand."

"No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet."

Jesus answered, "Unless i wash you, you have no part with me."

"Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!"

Jesus answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean, though not everyone of you." For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.

When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what i have done for you?" he asked them. "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord', and rightly so, for that is what i am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as i have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them."

His plan was in motion. He even knew about his betrayal done by Judas Iscariot, yet all events needed to be fulfilled for the sake of Humankind.

FYI, Jesus set a whole range of events by sparking off an upset within the local religious authorities by rebuking and driving out a bunch of traders from a temple right after his triumphal entry. Judas saw an opportunity to make a fast buck from handing Jesus to them, the local authorities (mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of John 13).