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Jesus says "Do you know what I have done for you?"

Jesus finished washing their feet. Then he put on his clothes and went back to the table. Jesus asked, "Do you understand what I did for you? You call me 'Teacher.' And you call me 'Lord.' And this is right, because that is what I am. I am your Lord and Teacher. But I washed your feet {like a servant}. So you also should wash each other's feet. I did this as an example for you. So you should do {for each other} like I did for you." Jesus didn't just teach with words. His life was a conscious example lived before his disciples and recorded in the Gospels for us. Jesus' life teaches us two crucial truths: 1) how God would live as a human and 2) how we should live as humans. Our challenge is not just to know the words and deeds of Jesus' life. We need to understand those words and deeds as something from God as he lived among us and then to incorporate those words and deeds into our own lives. Jesus' life calls us to follow in his steps! It is a question that might help us with our own question—it's a question that draws us deeper into the meaning of this night: Jesus asks, "Do you know what I have done for you?" How can we know what we're doing—with towel and basin, even with bread and wine, with all of it? How can we follow his command "that you also should do as I have done for you"? That is, how can we imitate, if we don't understand? "Do you know what I have done for you?" That is the question for tonight, for tomorrow night, for Saturday and Sunday; it is a question for every day. It's a question not just about footwashing, but about all of it: the birth, the teaching, the healing, the forgiving, the dying, the rising. "Do you know what I have done for you?" Jesus remains in control. Even at the very end: Jesus does not die, but rather gives up his spirit! And in fact this is a recurring theme in John: when he gives his speech on the Good Shepherd, Jesus says, "the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." "No one takes it from me," he says, "but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again." It's about power. "Do you know what I have done for you?" Jesus asks. The footwashing is not simply an act of kindness, it is not limited to an act of servanthood—it is an act of power. The language in the story, then, is important: first Jesus "arose" from the table—the same word that's used to describe his rising on the third day—and then he "laid down" his robe—the same word he used when speaking of laying down his life. It's all intertwined with that power that he has. What kind of power? Kingly power? Worldly? Economic? Military? No, certainly not. It's about the power of love. All of what Jesus has done for us, the basin and the towel, the body and the blood, the life and the death, all of it comes from the shepherd's love of the sheep, and therein lies the power. So, Jesus says, "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another." So all that we are called to do and to be, as followers of Christ, all of the doing stuff that God is about in the world—the helping, the sharing, the healing, the forgiving, the feeding—and more—all of that comes down to this one mandate from Jesus: Love! That's where the power is!