¹² So when He had finished washing their feet and had put on His garments and had sat down again, He said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you?

¹³ You call Me the Teacher (Master) and the Lord, and you are right in doing so, for that is what I am.

¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and Teacher (Master), have washed your feet, you ought [it is your duty, you are under obligation, you owe it] to wash one another’s feet.

¹⁵ For I have given you this as an example, so that you should do [in your turn] what I have done to you.

¹⁶ I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, A servant is not greater than his master, and no one who is sent is superior to the one who sent him.

¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed and happy and ^[a]to be envied are you if you practice them [if you act accordingly and really do them].

¹⁸ I am not speaking of and I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats ^[b]My bread with Me has raised up his heel against Me.^(A)

¹⁹ I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it does take place you may be persuaded and believe that I am He [Who I say I am—the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah].

²⁰ I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who receives and welcomes and takes into his heart any messenger of Mine receives Me [in just that way]; and he who receives and welcomes and takes Me into his heart receives Him Who sent Me [in that same way].

20 After the end of the year, when kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the army and devastated the land of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. Joab smote Rabbah and overthrew it.

² David took their king’s crown from off his head and found that it weighed a talent of gold and that precious stones were in it. It was set upon David’s head. He brought also very much spoil out of the city of Rabbah.

³ He brought out the people who were in it and set them at cutting with saws, iron wedges, and axes. So David dealt with all the Ammonite cities. And David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

⁴ After this, there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Sippai, of the sons of the giant, and they were subdued.

⁵ There was war again with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

⁶ And again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand and each foot. He also was born to the giant.

⁷ And when he reproached and defied Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David’s brother, slew him.

⁸ These were born to the giant [clan] in Gath, and they fell by the hands of David and his servants.