Our Saviour having finished his public discourses, in which he “endured the contradiction of sinners,” now applies himself to a private conversation with his friends, in which he designed the consolation of saints.

It has generally been taken for granted by commentators that Christ’s washing his disciples’ feet, and the discourse that followed it, were the same night in which he was betrayed, and at the same sitting wherein he ate the passover and instituted the Lord’s supper; but whether before the solemnity…

We have here the discovery of Judas’s plot to betray his Master. Christ knew it from the beginning; but now first he discovered it to his disciples, who did not expect Christ should be betrayed, though he had often told them so, much less did they suspect that one of them should do it. Now here, I.

This and what follows, to the end of John 13:31—14:33, was Christ’s table-talk with his disciples. When supper was done, Judas went out; but what did the Master and his disciples do, whom he left sitting at table? They applied themselves to profitable discourse, to teach us as much as we can to…

In these verses we have, I. Peter’s curiosity, and the check given to that. 1. Peter’s question was bold and blunt : Lord, whither goest thou? referring to what Christ had said , Whither I go, you cannot come.