“So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”

(John 13:12-17)

وَلَمّا انتَهَى مِنْ غَسلِ أقدامِهِمْ، لَبِسَ رِداءَهُ، وَاتَّكَأ ثانِيَةً وَقالَ لَهُمْ: «هَلْ تَفهَمُونَ ما فَعَلْتُهُ لَكُمْ؟ أنتُمْ تَدعُونَنِي مُعَلِّماً وَسَيِّداً، وَأنتُمْ مُصِيْبوْنَ لِأنَّنِي كَذَلِكَ. فَما دُمتُ وَأنا المُعَلِّمُ وَالسَّيِّدُ قَدْ غَسَلْتُ أقدامَكُمْ، فَعَلَيْكُمْ أنْ تَغسِلُوا بَعضُكُمْ أقدامَ بَعضٍ. لَقَدْ أرَيْتُكُمْ مِثالاً لِكَي تَفعَلُوا لِلآخَرِيْنَ ما فَعَلْتُهُ لَكُمْ. أقُولُ الحَقَّ لَكُمْ: ما مِنْ عَبدٍ أعظَمُ مِنْ سَيِّدِهِ، وَما مِنْ رَسُولٍ أعظَمُ مِنَ الَّذِي أرسَلَهُ.فَما دُمتُمْ تَعرِفُونَ هَذِهِ الأشياءَ، فَهَنِيْئاً لَكُمْ إذا ما عَمِلْتُمْ بِها

( يوحنا ١٣: ١٢- ١٧)

The Spiritual Growth of a Servant – His Eminence Metropolitan Serapion