You might call John chapter 13 one dark night in Jerusalem.

Does that sound ominous?

Well, it tells us that.

In fact, the picture behind me is Jerusalem at sunset,

but we need to switch it because in our text,

it goes into the darkness of night.

In fact, check it out.

In John 13, it says, verse 30, Judas, then having

received this off, went immediately out, and it was night. And man, I'll tell you, I'll talk about

the dark night of the soul. I probably can't do justice to how dismal this scene is for the

disciples. You know, John chapter 13 and chapter 14 probably

shouldn't have been broken into two chapters. I think it does a disservice. A lot of people read

chapter 14 disconnected from 13, but chapter 14 is there because chapter 13 is so troubling,

Jesus is going to help the disciples because they're deeply troubled by

what just happened. You know, we think of the last supper supper as, oh, Jesus and his disciples,

they're having a wonderful time. But it wasn't, I mean, can you imagine a Thanksgiving dinner

at your house that would go like the last supper? Picture this. Somebody strips themselves

of their clothes, wraps themselves with

a towel and starts washing all your all's feet. That's the first thing that happened. And then not

like that, but it's Jesus who's washing the feet. Peter says, Lord, you should be washing my feet.

I should be washing yours. And Jesus says something, again, ominous. He says, Peter, unless you let me

wash your feet, I can have no

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