John 13:16-18

New Testament for Everyone

¹⁶ “I’m telling you the solemn truth,” he continued. “The slave isn’t greater than the master. People who are sent are not greater than the person who sends them. ¹⁷ If you know these things, God’s blessing on you if you do them.

¹⁸ “I’m not talking about all of you,” he went on. “I know the ones I have chosen. What the Bible says has to come true: ‘The person who ate my bread lifted up his heel against me.’