Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 13:10

"Jesus saith to him, He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all." — John 13:10 (ASV)

Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

Dear friends, when we believe in Christ, we are washed in the fountain filled with blood, and we are clean; but this world is such a sinful place that we cannot walk through it for even a day without some of its mire and dust clinging to us. Besides, God's lilies are so pure that they are hardly fit to bloom in such a defiling atmosphere.

Oh, how we need the dew to wash the lily when the night comes on! How greatly we need to have the foot-washing administered to us every day! We do not need to repeat the first great washing, the bath by which our sins were cleansed; when that was done, it was done once for all. Our sin was pardoned as before a Judge; but we want it to be taken away as before our Father, for we are now under His loving discipline.

Christ further said to His disciples, Ye are clean, but not all. Does He say that to us at this time? Ye are clean, but not all. Where sits the man, in this house of prayer, who is not clean—the sinner who has not yet been washed by Jesus Christ?

Where sits the woman who is not clean? The Lord have mercy upon you, dear friends! You know that, in the olden days, they put a red cross on the door of the house where the plague was. We cannot put a cross upon you; but I urge you to consider yourselves as marked men and marked women in the sight of God, and I pray the Lord to take that mark away by causing you to be washed, that you may be completely clean.

How quickly He can wash the foulest sinners! He who believes in Jesus is washed in the precious blood, and he is clean. God cleanse us all for His great name's sake!