耶稣为门徒洗脚

13 逾越节前,耶稣知道他离开这世界回到父那里去的时候到了。他一直爱世界上那些属自己的人,并且爱他们到底。

晚餐的时候,魔鬼已经把出卖耶稣的念头放在加略西门的儿子[a]犹大的心里。 耶稣知道父把一切交在自己手里,并且知道自己是从神那里来,又要回到神那里去。 他从席位上起身,脱了外衣,拿起一条布巾束在自己腰上, 然后把水倒进盆里,开始洗门徒们的脚,又用束在腰上的布巾擦干。

他来到西门彼得面前,彼得对他说:“主啊,你洗我的脚吗?”

耶稣回答说:“我所做的,你现在不理解,不过事后就会明白。”

彼得说:“你绝不可洗我的脚,永远不可!”

耶稣说:“如果我不洗你,你就与我没有份了。”

西门彼得说:“主啊!不单我的脚,连我的手、我的头也要洗!”

10 耶稣说:“洗过澡的人,除了脚以外,没有需要洗的;他是完全干净的。你们是干净的,但不是每个人都干净。” 11 原来,耶稣知道要出卖他的是谁,所以说“你们不是每个人都干净。”

彼此洗脚的意义

12 耶稣洗完了他们的脚以后,穿上外衣,又坐下来,对他们说:“你们明白我为你们做的事吗? 13 你们叫我‘老师’,称呼我‘主’。你们说得对,因为我就是那一位。 14 因此,如果我——你们的主、你们的老师,还洗你们的脚,那么你们也应该彼此洗脚。 15 事实上,我给你们做了榜样,好让你们也照着我为你们所做的去做。

16 “我确确实实地告诉你们:没有一个奴仆大过他的主人,也没有一个被派的大过派他的人。 17 你们既然明白这些事,如果去做,就蒙福了。 18 我不是针对你们每个人而说的。我了解我所拣选的每个人,但这是为要应验经上的话:‘那吃我饼的人[b],竟抬脚踢[c]我。’[d]

19 “如今,在事情发生以前,我先告诉你们,好让你们在事情发生的时候,能相信我就是那一位。 20 我确确实实地告诉你们:那接受我所派的人,就是接受我;接受我的,就是接受派我来的那一位。”

预言犹大卖主

21 说完这些话,耶稣灵里烦扰,就指名说:“我确确实实地告诉你们:你们当中有一个人要出卖我。”

22 门徒彼此相看,不知道耶稣说的是谁。 23 他的门徒当中,有一个挨着耶稣坐着[e],是耶稣所爱的。 24 西门彼得就向他点头示意,要他问耶稣所讲的人到底是谁。 25 于是那门徒贴近耶稣[f],问他:“主啊,是谁呢?”

26 耶稣回答:“我蘸一块饼给谁,就是谁。”接着,他蘸了一块饼拿给加略西门的儿子[g]犹大 27 犹大一接那块饼,撒旦就进了他里面。于是耶稣对他说:“你要做的,就快一点做吧。”

28 在座的人,没有一个明白耶稣为什么对他说这话。 29 因为犹大管钱包,有些人以为耶稣对他说,去买我们过节需要的东西,或是要他给穷人什么东西。 30 犹大接了那块饼,就立刻出去。那时候是夜间了。

新的命令

31 犹大出去以后,耶稣就说:“现在人子得了荣耀,神藉着人子也得了荣耀。 32 神既然藉着人子得了荣耀,[h]神也将藉着自己荣耀人子,而且立刻就要荣耀他。

33 “孩子们哪,我与你们在一起的时候不多了。你们将寻找我,而且就像我曾经告诉过那些犹太人一样,现在我也告诉你们:我去的地方,你们不能去。

34 “我给你们一条新的命令:就是要你们彼此相爱,就如我爱你们,为要使你们也彼此相爱。 35 如果你们彼此之间有了爱,众人从这一点就会知道你们是我的门徒了。”

预言彼得不认主

36 西门彼得问:“主啊,你要到哪里去呢?”

耶稣回答:“我去的地方,你现在不能跟着去,但以后会跟着去。”

37 彼得说:“主啊,为什么我现在就不能跟随你呢?为了你,我愿意舍弃自己的生命!”

38 耶稣回答:“你愿意为我舍命吗?我确确实实地告诉你:鸡叫以前,你必定三次不认我。

Footnotes

  1. 约翰福音 13:2 儿子——辅助词语。
  2. 约翰福音 13:18 那吃我饼的人——有古抄本作“与我一同吃饼的人”。
  3. 约翰福音 13:18 踢——原文直译“对付”。
  4. 约翰福音 13:18 《诗篇》41:9。
  5. 约翰福音 13:23 挨着耶稣坐着——原文直译“坐在耶稣胸前”。
  6. 约翰福音 13:25 贴近耶稣——原文直译“贴近耶稣的胸膛”。
  7. 约翰福音 13:26 儿子——辅助词语。
  8. 约翰福音 13:32 有古抄本没有“神既然藉着人子得了荣耀,”。

Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

13 Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father.(A) Having loved his own who were in the world,(B) he loved them to the end.

Now when it was time for supper, the devil(C) had already put it into the heart of Judas,(D) Simon Iscariot’s son,[a] to betray(E) him. Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands,(F) that he had come from God,(G) and that he was going back to God.(H) So he got up from supper, laid aside his outer clothing,(I) took a towel, and tied it around himself.(J) Next, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around him.

He came to Simon Peter,(K) who asked him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t realize now, but afterward you will understand.”(L)

“You will never wash my feet,” Peter said.

Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

10 “One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For he knew who would betray him. This is why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

The Meaning of Foot Washing

12 When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer clothing, he reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are speaking rightly, since that is what I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.(M) 15 For I have given you an example,(N) that you also should do just as I have done for you.

16 “Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master,[b](O) and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.(P)

18 “I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen.(Q) But the Scripture(R) must be fulfilled: (S) The one who eats my bread[c] has raised his heel against me.[d](T) 19 I am telling you now before it happens,(U) so that when it does happen you will believe(V) that I am he.(W) 20 Truly I tell you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives(X) me receives him who sent me.”

Judas’s Betrayal Predicted

21 When(Y) Jesus had said this, he was troubled in his spirit(Z) and testified,(AA) “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”

22 The disciples started looking at one another—uncertain which one he was speaking about. 23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved,(AB) was reclining close beside Jesus.[e] 24 Simon Peter motioned to him to find out who it was he was talking about. 25 So he leaned back against Jesus and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

26 Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.”(AC) When he had dipped the bread,(AD) he gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son.[f] 27 After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan(AE) entered him. So Jesus told him, “What you’re doing, do quickly.”

28 None of those reclining at the table knew why he said this to him. 29 Since Judas(AF) kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,”(AG) or that he should give something to the poor. 30 After receiving the piece of bread, he immediately left. And it was night.(AH)

The New Command

31 When(AI) he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man(AJ) is glorified, and God is glorified(AK) in him.(AL) 32 If God is glorified in him,[g] God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. 33 Little children, I am with you a little while longer.(AM) You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’(AN)

34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love(AO) one another.”

Peter’s Denials Predicted

36 “Lord,” Simon Peter said to him, “where are you going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going(AP) you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”

37 “Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life(AQ) for you.”(AR)

38 Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly I tell you, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times.

Footnotes

  1. 13:2 Or Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son
  2. 13:16 Or lord
  3. 13:18 Other mss read eats bread with me
  4. 13:18 Ps 41:9
  5. 13:23 Lit reclining at Jesus’s breast; that is, on his right; Jn 1:18
  6. 13:26 Or Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son
  7. 13:32 Other mss omit If God is glorified in him