Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
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Gill's Exposition
Simon Peter saith unto him,.... Being convinced of his mistake in not submitting to Christ, fearing he should he deprived of communion with him, than which nothing was more desirable to him, or more…
Barnes' Notes
Not my feet only ... - Peter, with characteristic readiness and ardor, saw now that everything depended on this. His whole salvation, the entire question of his attachment to his Master, was involved.…
Adam Clarke
Lord, not my feet only, etc. - It appears that Peter entered into our Lord's meaning, and saw that this was emblematical of a spiritual cleansing: therefore he wishes to be completely washed.
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…
Cambridge Bible
not my feet only The impetuosity which is so marked a characteristic of S. Peter in the first three Gospels (comp. especially Luk 5:8 and Mat 16:22), comes out very strongly in his three utterances…
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