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Washing the Disciples’ Feet

13 Now before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

² Now supper being concluded, the devil had put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him. ³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands and that He came from God and was going to God, ⁴ rose from supper, laid aside His garments, and took a towel and wrapped 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 wrapped.

⁶ Then He came to Simon Peter, and Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”

⁷ Jesus answered him, “You do not understand what I am doing now. But later you will understand.”

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

Jesus answered him, “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. You are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For He knew who would betray Him. Therefore He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹² So when He had washed their feet, and put on His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³ You call Me Teacher and Lord. You speak accurately, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly 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 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

¹⁸ “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’^[a]

¹⁹ “Now I tell you before it happens, that when it does happen, you may believe that I am He. ²⁰ Truly, truly I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me. And he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Jesus Foretells His Betrayal^(A)

²¹ When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.”

²² The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom He spoke. ²³ Now there was leaning against Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples whom Jesus loved. ²⁴ Therefore Simon Peter motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.

²⁵ Leaning back against Jesus’ bosom, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.” When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ²⁷ After receiving the piece of bread, Satan entered him.

Then Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” ²⁸ But no one at the table knew why He said this to him. ²⁹ Since Judas had the moneybox, some thought that Jesus said to him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ Having received the piece of bread, he then left immediately. And it was night.

The New Commandment

³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus then said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and in Him God is glorified. ³² If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will immediately glorify Him.

³³ “Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me. And as I said to the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

³⁴ “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵ By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Peter’s Denial Foretold^(B)

³⁶ Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?”

Jesus answered him, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now. But you shall follow Me afterward.”

³⁷ Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.”

³⁸ Jesus answered Him, “Will you lay down your life for My sake? Truly, truly I say to you, the rooster shall not crow until you have denied Me three times.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

14 “Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, you may be also. ⁴ You know where I am going, and you know the way.”

⁵ Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going. How can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. ⁷ If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that is sufficient for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. So how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own authority. But the Father who lives in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me. Or else believe Me on account of the works themselves. ¹² Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in Me will do the works that I do also. And he will do greater works than these, because I am going to My Father. ¹³ I will do whatever you ask in My name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

The Promise of the Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love Me, keep My commandments. ¹⁶ I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counselor, that He may be with you forever: ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, for it does not see Him, neither does it know Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you, and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you fatherless. I will come to you. ¹⁹ Yet a little while and the world will see Me no more. But you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. ²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father. And I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

²² Then Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us, but not to the world?”

²³ Jesus answered him, “If a man loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words. The word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵ “I have spoken these things to you while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

²⁸ “You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and am returning to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. ²⁹ Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰ After this I will not speak much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over Me. ³¹ But I do as the Father has commanded Me so that the world may know that I love the Father.

“Rise, let us go from here.

Jesus the True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in Me, as I also remain in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in Me.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If a man does not remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch and withers. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also loved you. Remain in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is My commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I have heard from My Father have I made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that the Father may give you whatever you ask Him in My name. ¹⁷ This I command you: that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, the world therefore hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My words, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not performed among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin. But now have they seen and hated both My Father and Me. ²⁵ But that the word which is written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’^[b]

²⁶ “But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me. ²⁷ And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.