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 *pent, by which their fathers of old were saved from death. As He looked upon the lamb stretched cross-*wise before Him, He thought of the morrow, when, after fifteen hundred years of types, the fulfilment would come, and the Lamb of God by His Death would take away the sins of the world.

During the Paschal Supper Jesus rose from the table, laid aside His upper garment, and, having taken a towel, girded Himself. Then, pouring water into a basin, He came and knelt before Peter to wash his feet. Peter, all amazement, drew them up, exclaiming:

"Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"

Jesus said to him: "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter."

Peter said to Him: "Thou shalt never wash my feet."

Jesus answered him: "If I wash thee not thou shalt have no part with Me."

Peter said to Him: "Lord, not only my feet but also my hands and my head."

Jesus said to him: "He that is washed needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all."

Then after He had washed their feet and taken His garments, being sat down again, He said to them:

"Know you what I have done to you? You call Me Master and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If then I, being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that as I have done to you, so you do also."

Then He said to them sorrowfully:

"Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you shall betray Me."