This warns us that the real foot-washing is only for the people who are genuinely in the fellowship with the Lord.

我们必须使查考神的话和摸着主成为一件事。每逢我们读圣经，我们必须将我们的灵向主敞开。当我们的眼睛在阅读圣经的话，我们的心思在领会这些话时，我们的灵必须操练藉着圣经接触主。这样，我们不但在头脑里领会圣经上的白纸黑字，还在我们的灵中得到生命。

If people will receive this light, they will have God. He is the manifestation of God as light, and if you receive Him as light, you will have God. If a man believes in Him, he will not remain in darkness.

The Jewish priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus (12:10) who testified to the resurrection power of the Lord. He was an evident and strong testimony of the Lord’s resurrection power.

It is not simply that Mary loved the Lord, but that she poured out her best upon the Lord, and this becomes a sign of the proper church life. In the proper church life we all must love the Lord to such an extent.

The Lord said that He will give sight to those who cannot see, but that He will make blind those who claim to see. This is a serious vindication of the Lord. Thus, we must be humble and not proud.

if you obey the living Word and say, “Amen, Lord Jesus,” you immediately have the sensation that something has fallen off your eyes and you have light. Your old humanity has fallen away and you can see into the heavens. This is the way to receive light.

There are three steps which we must follow in order to receive sight for our eyes.

If we all live by the Lord’s life as the source, in the Lord’s love as the condition, and for fruit-bearing as the goal, we surely will love one another.

所有的神迹、奇事和恩赐，都不过是我们藉以接触基督的见证。今天的问题是人虽然有了见证，却未接触主自己。人可能见到了神迹奇事，有了恩赐和圣经知识，却没有来接触主自己。只有主自己赐你生命。

黑暗永远不能胜过光，消灭光，光却能驱散黑暗。当生命的光照在我们里面，黑暗绝不能胜过它。并且这光是真光，照亮每一个人。 当神这神圣的生命在我们里面，作生命之光照亮时，我们就在祂的光照之下。我们借着接受神的话从神而生，就有神作我们的生命，并且这生命成为我们里面的光，一直在照亮。

The branches are in an intimate relationship with the vine