Often such words are of little use unless carried out in action. He asked his followers if they had grasped the tone of his symbolic work, "Open your eyes and see for I am with you as one of yours. I am not seated above you on a throne for you to grovel before me as slaves. No! I stripped myself of glory and became one of you.
Basi ikiwa mimi, niliye Bwana na Mwalimu, nimewatawadha miguu, imewapasa vivyo kutawadhana miguu ninyi kwa ninyi. Kwa kuwa nimewapa kielelezo, ili kama mimi nilivyowatendea, nanyi mtende vivyo. Amin, amin nawaambia ninyi, Mtumwa si mkuu kuliko bwana wake; wala mtume si mkuu kuliko yeye aliyempeleka.