truth of washing the inner person. Throughout John’s gospel, when He dealt with people, Jesus spoke of spiritual truth in physical terms. He did it when He spoke to Nicodemus, the woman at the well, and the Pharisees. Now He does it with Peter. He is saying, “Peter, unless you allow Me to wash you in a spiritual way, you are not clean and you have no part with Me.” All cleansing in the spiritual realm comes from Christ, and the only way anyone can be clean is if he is washed by regeneration through
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