What you've failed to see about the Last Supper.

I think we've missed the point of one of Jesus' most popular stories.

There’s a detail in the popular story of the Last Supper that I think we gloss over. Maybe we completely miss it. And yet I think we’d be wise to remember it.

Especially today.

In John 13:1-17, we get the story of Jesus washing his disciples feet. And for a lot of us—including me—we think that’s all the story is about. After all, that’s what the heading says: “Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet.” But the headings aren’t inspired like Scripture is, and I wonder if that heading in our Bibles has contributed to us missing the point.

“But Jon, the story is about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet!”

It is. But it isn’t. Let me show you something.

I want to focus on verses 2-4 of John 13, because I think they hold the key to what the story is really about. Here they are:

During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going bac…