The Covenant Renewed in Moab

29 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the ^(A)covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

² Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: ^(B)“You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land— ^3 (C)the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. ⁴ Yet ^(D)the Lord has not given you a heart to ^[a]perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. ^5 (E)And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. ^(F)Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. ^6 (G)You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. ⁷ And when you came to this place, ^(H)Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered them. ⁸ We took their land and ^(I)gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ Therefore ^(J)keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may ^(K)prosper in all that you do.

¹⁰ “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, ¹¹ your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from ^(L)the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water— ¹² that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and ^(M)into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, ¹³ that He may ^(N)establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, ^(O)just as He has spoken to you, and ^(P)just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ “I make this covenant and this oath, ^(Q)not with you alone, ¹⁵ but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, ^(R)as well as with him who is not here with us today ¹⁶ (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by, ¹⁷ and you saw their ^[b]abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold); ¹⁸ so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, ^(S)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, ^(T)and that there may not be among you a root bearing ^(U)bitterness or wormwood; ¹⁹ and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I ^[c]follow the ^(V)dictates of my heart’—^(W)as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

^20 (X)“The Lord would not spare him; for then ^(Y)the anger of the Lord and ^(Z)His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord ^(AA)would blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And the Lord ^(AB)would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the ^(AC)Law, ²² so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they ^(AD)see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:

²³ ‘The whole land is brimstone, ^(AE)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, ^(AF)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ ²⁴ All nations would say, ^(AG)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ ²⁵ Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; ²⁶ for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. ²⁷ Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, ^(AH)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And the Lord ^(AI)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

²⁹ “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Who Has Believed Our Report?

³⁷ But although He had done so many ^(A)signs before them, they did not believe in Him, ³⁸ that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:

³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

^41 (E)These things Isaiah said ^[a]when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

Walk in the Light

⁴² Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but ^(F)because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; ^43 (G)for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out and said, ^(H)“He who believes in Me, ^(I)believes not in Me ^(J)but in Him who sent Me. ⁴⁵ And ^(K)he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. ^46 (L)I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness. ⁴⁷ And if anyone hears My words and does not ^[b]believe, ^(M)I do not judge him; for ^(N)I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. ^48 (O)He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—^(P)the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. ⁴⁹ For ^(Q)I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, ^(R)what I should say and what I should speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I ^(S)speak.”

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

13 Now ^(A)before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that ^(B)His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He ^(C)loved them to the end.

² And ^[a]supper being ended, ^(D)the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, ³ Jesus, knowing ^(E)that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He ^(F)had come from God and ^(G)was going to God, ^4 (H)rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. ⁵ After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. ⁶ Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, ^(I)“Lord, are You washing my feet?”

⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you ^(J)do not understand now, ^(K)but you will know after this.”

⁸ Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, ^(L)“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹ Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ^(M)you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For ^(N)He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

¹² So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you ^[b]know what I have done to you? ^13 (O)You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. ^14 (P)If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, ^(Q)you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For ^(R)I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. ^16 (S)Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. ^17 (T)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.