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A HOLY, DISORDERED HENKERSMAHLZEIT Maundy Thursday Analysis by Fred Niedner 1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4 got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.” 12 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. 16 Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. 31[When he had gone out,] Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. 33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” DIAGNOSIS: Everything Decently and In Order Step 1: Initial Diagnosis (External Problem): Untied Sandal Scandal Peter likely speaks for most, if not all, of us when he protests as Jesus, with his towel and basin, makes his way around the pairs of tired, dirty feet and finally gets to his. “No way, Jesus! You’re the Head Honcho, Grand Poobah, Spectatissimum Dominum of our esteemed circle. You should not be there under the table, doing the work of some nameless, female slave. This is beneath you, Jesus. You have gravity here, and it must be honored. Get back up there to your rightful place at the head of the table. On this night, of all nights, we must accord you glory, power, honor, and might. If nothing else, think how crazy it looks to have you crawling around down there. What will people think? (Look! The Presiding Minister is under the table! Where in #@%& is his/her chasuble?)” Step 2: Advanced Diagnosis (Internal Problem): Vainglory, Gone with the Wind Actually, we care less what outsiders think than what we think and mutually agree upon here inside our esteemed and sacred circle. We order our affairs. We honor reputations, credentials, achievements, proximity to founders, and other sorts of insider status. Each of us has a measure of gravity in the circle. Some have more than others, and it behooves all of us to remember who has the most. It’s especially important for those with less gravity to honor those with more. Those of us who have the most must constantly be on guard, lest our gravity be inadequately recognized in the affairs of this circle. It frightens and grieves us when our gravity goes unaccounted for, and all our striving, sacrifice, and good behavior goes for naught. The next thing you know, they’ll want us to do the dishes or stick around to clean the toilets. Step 3: Final Diagnosis (Eternal Problem): As Though We Never Lived In Gravity We Trust. Even slaves have a pecking order, right? We’d rather die than do certain jobs in the world. And if those who witnessed us stooping thought those jobs suited us, (and we knew they thought that about us), we would be dead. Or good as dead. Our gravity would be gone. And no one would ever know we’d once had some. We have but one consolation. At least we weren’t Judas, that bleeping “son of perdition.” That gives us a last ounce of gravity, right? Alas, even of that we can’t be totally certain. We are goners. Vanished. Forgotten. Not even dust on God’s scales. PROGNOSIS: Awash in His Gravity Step 4: Initial Prognosis (Eternal Solution): OMG, He’s Washing Me and My Grubby Feet Our Leader and Teacher, Spectatissimum Dominum, will die tomorrow in what looks to us like tragedy and gross injustice, but he keeps calling it his “hour,” the moment of his “glory,” or in his own language, the moment that will reveal his weight, his gravity. And now he says it starts tonight, here, in this room, at his peculiar Henkersmahlzeit—the meal at which a condemned prisoner gets to choose the menu, the games, and the music. And what does Jesus choose for this night of all nights? All he wants is to hold our flesh and blood in his hands, and one by one, wash us, beginning with our feet, that part of us none but we ourselves, or our mothers, or the undertaker who will bury us, ever touches or washes. In that curiously embarrassing, intimate moment, he becomes one flesh with us, for from now on, having died our death, our feet will be his feet, and using them, nail-marks and all, he will roam the earth, loving the lovable and unlovable, forgiving the forgivable and unforgivable alike. His gravity and glory will show up everywhere we go. Step 5: Advanced Prognosis (Internal Solution): Receiving, Recognizing True Gravity We wanted his place at the table, or thought we did, because we wanted some reward for our effort, payoff for our pain. Now we find that he wanted nothing more than to take our place. Thus, we now share his gravity, his glory, which still, like always, shows up in under-the-table sorts of places the world hardly notices. But we notice. By faith, we now see and know his love that transcends old orders, commandments, and measures of gravity, and in believing, we share in and have his gravity. All we could imagine. And then some. Step 6: Final Prognosis (External Solution): Loving as He Loved and Loves This night is dress rehearsal for our Henkersmahlzeit. Every other day and night of our lives is, or could be, the occasion of our hangman’s meal of last requests; for tomorrow we, or you, may die, and all we have is this moment to hold each other, share in our Lord’s forgiveness, give thanks for all the days and nights we have had together in this company gathered in his name, and eat and drink his simple meal. We share this meal here, in the circle where we were washed and came to trust in our true gravity, but this meal creates a restlessness in our feet, which the teacher took in his hands and washed. These feet will go now into all the world God so loved, carrying along still-wounded hands that would gather every creature into the infinite embrace of the one who, even on his last evening, wanted nothing more than to hold, wash, and have them as his own.
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यूहन्ना अध्याय 13 यो प्राय यहूदीहरूको निस्तार चाड आइसकेको बेला थियो। येशूले जान्नु हुन्थ्यो कि अब उहाँ को संसार छोडने समय आइपुग्कोछ। अब आफ्ना पिता कहाँ फर्की जाने समय आइपुगेकोछ। येशूले सधैं तिनीहरूलाई प्रेम गर्नु भयो जो उहाँसंग त्यस संसारमा थिए। अब येशूले तिनीहरूलाई आफ्नो पूर्ण प्रेम देखाउने समय आएको थियो। 2 येशू र उहाँका चेलाहरूको, निम्ति बेलुकाको भोजन थियो। शिमोन इस्कारयोतीको छोरा यहूदालाई येशूको विरुद्ध हुने कुरा अघिबाटै शैतानले प्रेरित गराएको थियो। 3 पिताले येशूलाई सबै कुरामाथि शक्ति दिनुभएको थियो। येशूले यी कुराहरू जान्नु हुन्थ्यो। उहाँ यो पनि जान्नु हुन्थ्यो कि उहाँ परमेश्वरबाट आउनु भएको हो। अनि परमश्वर तर्फै र्फकिरहनु भएको थियो भन्ने पनि जान्नु हुन्थ्यो। 4 जब तिनीहरूले खाई रहेका थिए, येशू उठनु भयो र आफ्ना पोशाकलाई पन्साउनु भयो। उहाँले तौलिया लिएर आफ्नो कम्मरमा बेह्रनु भयो। 5 तब येशूले भाँडामा पानी खन्याउनु भयो। उहाँले तब चेलाहरू खुट्टा धुन थाल्नु भयो। र आफ्ना कम्मरमा बेहेरेको तौलियाले उनीहरूका खुट्टा पुछिदिनु भयो। 6 येशू शिमोन पत्रुस कहाँ आउनु भयो। तर पत्रुसले येशूलाई भने, “प्रभु, मेरो खुट्टा धुनु पर्दैन।” 7 येशूले जवाफमा भन्नुभयो, “अहिले मैले के गरिरहेछु तिमी जान्दैनौ। तर पछि बुझने छौं।” 8 पत्रुसले भने, “अहँ! तपाईंले मेरो खुट्टा कहिल्यै धुनुहुँदैन।”येशूले भन्नुभयो, “यदि मैले तिम्रो खुट्टा धोइनँ भने, मसँग तिम्रो कुनै अंश रहने छैन।” 9 शिमोन पत्रुसले भने, “प्रभु, मेरो खुट्टामात्र होइन, मेरो हात र टाउँको पनि धोइदिनु हवस्।” 10 येशूले भन्नुभयो, “नुहाइसके पछि एक मानिस सम्पूर्ण रूपले सफा हुँदछ। उसको खुट्टामात्र धुनु पर्दछ। तिमीहरू सबैजना शुद्ध छौ तर कोही कोही मात्र छैनौ।” 11 यशूले उहाँको विरुद्ध को जाने छ चिन्नुहुन्थ्यो। त्यसैकारणले येशूले भन्नुभयो, “तिमीहरूमा सबै शुद्ध छैनौं।” 12 येशूले तिनीहरूका खुट्टा धोइसक्नु भयो। तब आफ्नो पोशाक लगाई टेबलतर्फ फर्की जानुभयो उहाँले भन्नुभयो, “तिमीहरू जान्दछौ मैले तिमीहरूलाई के गरें?” 13 तिमीहरूले मलाई ‘गुरूज्यू’ र ‘प्रभु’ भनेर बोलाउँछौ। अनि यो ठीक हो किनभने म त्यही हुँ। 14 तिमीहरूका प्रभु र गुरू हुँ। किनेभने मैले तिमीहरूका खुट्टा एक नोकरले जस्तो धोएँ। यसैले तिमीहरूले पनि एकअर्काको खुट्टा धुनु पर्छ। 15 मैले तिमीहरूको अघि उदाहरणको लागि यो गरें । र तिमीहरूले एकाअर्कामा त्यसै गर्नु पर्छ जस्तो मैले गरें। 16 म सत्य भन्छु। एक नोकर उसको मालिक भन्दा ठूलो हुँदैन जसलाई केही कार्यका निम्ति पठाइएको छ ऊ ती पठाउने भन्दा ठूलो होइन। 17 यदि तिमीहरूले यी कुराहरू जान्दछौ, गर्यौ भने सुखी हुनेछौ। 18 “मैले तिमीहरू सबैको विषयमा भनिरहेको होइन। मैले छानेका मानिसहरू म चिन्दछु। तर धर्मशास्त्रमा जे भनिएकोछ त्यो हुन्छः जसले मेरो भोजन खायो ऊ नै शत्रु भयो। 19 अब योस हुन अगाडि नै म भनिरहेछु। जब यस्तो घटनेछ तब म उही नै हुँ भनेर तिमीहरूले विश्वास गर्नेछौ। 20 यसर्थ म साँचो भन्छु। जसले मैले पठाएको मानिसलाई ग्रहण गर्दछ तब उसले मलाई पनि ग्रहण गर्दछ। र जसले मलाई ग्रहण गर्छ भने उसले मलाई जसले पठाउनु भयो उहाँलाई पनि ग्रहण गर्छ।” 21 जब येशूले यी कुराहरू भनी सक्नु भयो, येशू आत्मामा साह्रै विचलित हुनुभयो। उहाँले खुल्लम-खुल्ला भन्नुभयो, “म साँचो भन्छु कि तिमीहरू मध्ये एकजना मेरो विरुद्ध हुनछौ।” 22 येशूका चेलाहरूले एक-अर्कालाई हेरे। तिनीहरूले बुझेनन् कि येशूले कसको विषयमा भनिरहनु भएको थियो। 23 उहाँका चेलाहरू मध्ये एकजना उहाँकै छेउमा बसिरहका थिए। तिनलाई येशूले अत्यन्त प्रेम गर्नु हुन्थ्यो। 24 शिमोन पत्रुसले त्यस चेलालाई इशारा गरेर सोध्नु लगाए कि उहाँले भन्नु भएको मानसि को होला। 25 त्यो चेला उहाँको छातीमा अडेस लाग्यो अनि सोध्यो, “प्रभु त्यो को होला जो तपाईंको विरूद्ध जानेछ?” 26 येशूले जवाफ दिनुभयो, “म यो रोटी प्यालामा चोब्नेछु र जसलाई म त्यो चोबेको रोटी दिन्छु ऊ नै मेरो विरुद्ध हुनेछ।” यसर्थ येशूले रोटीको एक टुक्रा लिनु भयो। उहाँले त्यो चोब्नु भयो र शिमोनको छोरो यहूदा इस्करियोतलाई दिनुभयो। 27 जब यहूदाले त्यो रोटीको टुक्रा लियो शैतान उसकोभित्र पस्यो, येशूले यहूदालाई भन्नु भयो, “तिमीले जे गर्नु छ त्यो झट्टै गरिहाल!” 28 भोजनमा बसिरहेकाहरू कसैले येशूले यहूदालाई त्यसो भन्नुभएको तात्पर्य बुझेनन्। 29 यहूदा मात्र एक त्यस्तो चरित्रको थियो जसले पैसाको थैली राख्दथ्यो। अरूहरूले के सोचे भने येशूले यहूदालाई भोजको निम्ति आवश्यक चीजहरू किन्न पठाउनु भयो। अर्थात् यसो पनि अरूहरूले सम्झे कि येशूले गरिबहरूका लागि केही किन्न यहूदालई पठाउनु भयो। 30 यहूदाले येशूले दिनुभएको त्यो रोटीको टुक्रा ग्रहण गर्यो र तुरुन्तै बाहिर निस्की हाल्यो। त्यसबेला रात परिसकेको थियो। 31 यहूदा जब गइसकेको थियो, तब येशूले भन्नु भयो, “अब मानिसको पुत्रले महिमा प्राप्त गर्छ अनि परमेश्वरले मानिसको पुत्रबाट महिमा प्राप्त गर्नुहुन्छ। 32 यदि परमेश्वरले पनि उसको माध्यमबाट महिमा प्राप्त गर्दछ भने, उहाँले छोरोलाई स्वयंबाट महिमा तुरून्तै दिनुहुनेछ।” 33 येशूले भन्नुभयो, “मेरा छोरा-छोरीहो, अब म तिमीहरूसंग केही समय सम्म मात्र रहनेछु। तिमीहरूले मलाई खोज्नेछौ। अनि यहूदीहरूलाई मैले जे भने त्यो तिमीहरूलाई भन्नेछु, अब जहाँ म गइरहेछु त्यहाँ तिमीहरू जान सक्तैनौ। 34 “म तिमीहरूलाई एउटा नयाँ आज्ञा दिन्छः एकअर्कामा प्रेम गर। तिमीहरूले मैले जस्तो एकाअर्कामा प्रेम गर्नु पर्छ। 35 यदि तिमीहरूले आपसमा प्रेम गर्यौ भने यस तरिकाबाट सबै मानिसहरूले जान्नेछन् कि तिमीहरू मेरा चेलाहरू हौ।” 36 शिमोन पत्रुसले येशूलाई सोधे, “प्रभु, तपाईं कहाँ जानु हुँदैछ?”येशूले जवाफ दिनुभयो, “जहाँ म गइरहेछु त्यहाँ तिमी पछ्याउन सक्तैनौ अब। तर पछि मात्र पछ्याउनु सक्ने छौ।” 37 पत्रुसले सोधे, “प्रभु, अहिले म तपाईंलाई किन पछ्यान सक्तिन? म तपाईंका निम्ति मर्न तयार छु!” 38 येशूले जवाफ दिनुभयो, “साँचि नै तिमी आफ्नो जीवन मेरा निम्ति त्याग्न सक्नेछौ? म साँचो भन्छु। भाले बास्नु अघि, तिमीले तिनपल्ट भन्नेछौ कि तिमीले मलाई चिन्दैनौ।”