How perfect the Son does His work in John's gospel. He takes up one sinner after another throughout chapters 1-10, and does not leave them for the hand of any other; but one and all He perfects Himself, giving them the sense of this, that on leaving His presence they had already found all they wanted as sinners:-no ordinance, no apostle, no church, was needed to improve their state..
He takes up each of His saints in chap. 13, and washes them "clean every whit," fully ready, like accepted guests, to enter the house in a way worthy of it.
He takes up the house itself in chap. 14, and prepares it for them-does this service all Himself-and then He takes up His saints all together, returning and receiving • them unto Himself, to the house thus prepared for them. Chapter 14 again,
There is a completeness and a singleness in all these operations. He does each service Himself alone, and does it perfectly like the Son of God.