Section 4
to bring God into man; in the last eight chapters the Lord goes by death and resurrection to bring man into God. The first section shows how He comes, and the last section shows how He goes. He comes by incarnation for Him to bring God into us. He goes by death and resurrection for Him to bring us into God.
Between these two sections chapter thirteen stands as the turning point. Verse 3 says, "Jesus, knowing…that He had come forth from God, and was going to God." He had come from God and was going to God. For this reason, I say that chapter thirteen is the turning point in the Gospel.
For quite a long time I was deeply bothered by this chapter. I wondered why foot-washing was not recorded before chapter eleven or after chapter fourteen. I wondered why it was there in chapter thirteen. I was troubled by the posi tion of this chapter because I had come to realize that from chapter one through twelve the Lord as the Word had come to impart Himself as life to many people and that eventually the church came out. The church is there in chapter twelve. The Lord was the Lamb of God taking away sin, He was lifted up in the form of a serpent to deal with the serpentine nature, and He was also the