John 13-16

Christian Standard Bible

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.

² 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. ³ 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) 4} So he got up from supper, laid aside his outer clothing,^(I) took a towel, and tied it around himself.^{(J) 5} Next, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around him.

⁶ He came to Simon Peter,^(K) who asked him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t realize now, but afterward you will understand.”^(L)

⁸ “You will never wash my feet,” Peter said.

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

⁹ 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.

The Way to the Father

14 “Don’t let your heart be troubled.^(AS) Believe^[h] in God; ^(AT) believe also in me. ² In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going ^(AU) to prepare a place for you? ³ If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again^(AV) and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.^{(AW) 4} You know the way to where I am going.”^[i](AX)

⁵ “Lord,” Thomas^(AY) said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus told him, “I am^(AZ) the way,^(BA) the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you know me, you will also know^[j] my Father.^(BB) From now on you do know him^(BC) and have seen him.”

Jesus Reveals the Father

⁸ “Lord,” said Philip,^(BD) “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father.^(BE) How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?^(BF) The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own.^(BG) The Father who lives in me does his works.^{(BH) 11} Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe^[k] because of the works themselves.^(BI)

Praying in Jesus’s Name

¹² “Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me^(BJ) will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these,^(BK) because I am going to the Father.^{(BL) 13} Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified^(BM) in the Son.^{(BN) 14} If you ask me^[l] anything in my name,^(BO) I will do it.^[m](BP)

Another Counselor Promised

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep^[n] my commands.^{(BQ) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor^[o](BR) to be with you forever. ¹⁷ He is the Spirit^(BS) of truth.^(BT) The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be^[p] in you.^(BU)

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me,^(BV) but you will see me.^(BW) Because I live, you will live^(BX) too. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father,^(BY) you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(BZ) And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father.^(CA) I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

²² Judas^(CB) (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” ^(CC)

²³ Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.^{(CD) 24} The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.^(CE)

²⁵ “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. ²⁶ But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,^(CF) whom the Father will send^(CG) in my name, will teach you all things^(CH) and remind you of everything I have told you.^(CI)

Jesus’s Gift of Peace

²⁷ “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful.^{(CJ) 28} You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away^(CK) and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father,^(CL) because the Father is greater than I.^{(CM) 29} I have told you now before it happens^(CN) so that when it does happen you may believe. ³⁰ I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world^(CO) is coming. He has no power over me.^{[q](CP) 31} On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am^(CQ) the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,^(CR) and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean^(CS) because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.^{(CT) 5} I am the vine; ^(CU) you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit,^(CV) because you can do nothing without me. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside^(CW) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,^(CX) and they are burned.^{(CY) 7} If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.^{(CZ) 8} My Father is glorified^(DA) by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^[r] my disciples.

Christlike Love

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.^{(DB) 10} If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.^(DC)

¹¹ “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.^(DD)

¹² “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved^(DE) you. ¹³ No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life^(DF) for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master^[s](DG) is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you.^(DH) I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^(DI) the Father in my name,^(DJ) he will give you.^(DK)

¹⁷ “This is what I command you: Love one another.

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁸ “If the world hates^(DL) you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen^(DM) you out of it, the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^(DN) If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,^(DO) they will also keep yours. ²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name,^(DP) because they don’t know^(DQ) the one who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.^(DR) Now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates me also hates my Father.^{(DS) 24} If I had not done the works^(DT) among them that no one else has done,^(DU) they would not be guilty of sin.^(DV) Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled:^(DW) They hated me for no reason.^[t](DX)

The Counselor’s Ministry

²⁶ “When the Counselor^(DY) comes, the one I will send to you from the Father^(DZ) —the Spirit of truth^(EA) who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. ²⁷ You also will testify,^(EB) because you have been with me from the beginning.

16 “I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling. ² They will ban you from the synagogues.^(EC) In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service^(ED) to God. ³ They will do these things because they haven’t known^(EE) the Father or me. ⁴ But I have told you these things so that when their time^[u] comes you will remember^(EF) I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵ But now I am going away^(EG) to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{(EH) 6} Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth.^(EI) It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.^{(EJ) 8} When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: ⁹ About sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father^(EK) and you will no longer see me; ¹¹ and about judgment,^(EL) because the ruler of this world^(EM) has been judged.^(EN)

¹² “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.^{(EO) 13} When the Spirit of truth^(EP) comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^(EQ) For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵ Everything the Father^(ER) has is mine.^(ES) This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.^(ET)

Sorrow Turned to Joy

¹⁶ “In a little while,^(EU) you will no longer see me; ^(EV) again in a little while, you will see me.”^[v]

¹⁷ Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he’s telling us: ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’^(EW)?” ¹⁸ They said, “What is this he is saying,^[w] ‘In a little while’? We don’t know what he’s talking about.”

¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me’? ²⁰ Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn,^(EX) but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful,^(EY) but your sorrow will turn to joy. ²¹ When a woman is in labor, she has pain^(EZ) because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child,^(FA) she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. ²² So you also have sorrow^[x] now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice,^(FB) and no one will take away your joy from you.^(FC)

²³ “In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.^{(FD) 24} Until now you have asked for nothing in my name.^(FE) Ask and you will receive,^(FF) so that your joy may be complete.^(FG)

Jesus the Victor

²⁵ “I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ On that day you will ask^(FH) in my name, and^(FI) I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf. ²⁷ For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved^(FJ) me and have believed that I came from God.^{[y](FK) 28} I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”^(FL)

²⁹ His disciples said, “Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language. ³⁰ Now we know that you know everything^(FM) and don’t need anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”^(FN)

³¹ Jesus responded to them, “Do you now believe? ³² Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come,^(FO) when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.^{(FP) 33} I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”