John 13 - Introduction

PART V. (A.)
Chapter S 13–17
CHRIST IN THE CIRCLE OF HIS FRIENDS, THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT

Christ’s Fuller Revelation of Himself to His Disciples

1. The example of ministering love in Christ’s washing the disciples’ feet (John 13:1).

2. The unmasking of the traitor (John 13:18).

3. “Now is the Son of man glorified” (John 13:31).

4. The new commandment (John 13:33).

5. Peter’s question—his denial foretold (John 13:36).

“The relation of the Jewish night-days of the paschal season to our days, which begin with midnight, will be apparent from the following scheme”:—[4]

[4] This scheme accords with the theory that the Supper was instituted on the evening of the 13th and 14th Nisan.

From Caspari’s Life of Christ.

Time (xii–xx.).—Nisan, A.U.C. 783, A.D. 30