His purpose was to make His disciples clean, not to perform a show of His own cleanness.

By contrast, Jesus relinquished any prerogatives or semblance of rank or esteem by kneeling before common men, and using a basin of water, He washed their feet, not His own. The Pharisaic ceremonial washings with water were merely public showmanship that contributed to the vanity and false esteem of those washing themselves. Jesus denounced these rituals as vain and hypocritical, as they did nothing to cleanse the inner man.Д®ven though both rituals used water and were intended as symbols of inner cleanliness, Jesus' institution and performance of the Passover footwashing service was in direct contradiction to the washing ceremonies of the Pharisees. Before this occasion, the Pharisees, horrified that His disciples did not follow the ceremonial washing rituals of the religious Jews before they ate, had confronted Him because of this ( Matthew 15:1-20 Mark 7:1-23).

Perhaps Jesus Christ performed the most significant use of water as a means of cleansing when He instituted the footwashing ceremony at His last Passover, just before His death and resurrection ( John 13:1-17). The rite of water baptism, of course, contains elements of washing symbolic of our spiritual cleansing. The religious Jews of Christ's time had devised intricate washing ceremonies to demonstrate their inner and outer purity. Individuals who were physically or ceremonially unclean were separated from the camp of Israel and were required to wash themselves with water before returning to the congregation. In the Old Testament, God gave the Levitical priesthood specific washing instructions in the performance of their duties. The Bible refers frequently to using water for cleaning and purification, with both physical and spiritually symbolic implications. Among the hundreds of cleaning solutions available in the marketplace, water continues to be the base for most of them, and water alone is still considered the best general agent for cleaning almost anything. The motto used in the Rainbow marketing was 'Wet dust don't fly.' It is an accurate concept. Water will trap and retain between 90-99% of dirt and dust particles. However, even with the improvements and advances in the filtration systems on the market today, water-based filtration remains one of the very best and most efficient systems in use.

Nearly a century of research has produced a number of different types of filtration systems for vacuum cleaners, some much better than others. All vacuums function on the principle of pulling air in at high velocity into some kind of filtering system, by which the dirt and dust particles become trapped and cleaner air is returned to the room. Until recently, the Rainbow was unique among vacuum cleaners in that it uses water as its basis of filtration. The brand of vacuum I sold, Rainbow, may be familiar to some. It was a miserable but educational experience. Many years ago during my college days, I experienced a magnificent six-week career as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman.

Verse in bibble in clean me qith hyssop