Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²³ That which I delivered to you, I received from the Lord. For the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and thanked, and broke, and said, Take ye, and eat; this is my body which is broken for you. This do in the remembrance of me. ²⁵ In the same manner he took the cup when supper was done, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; this do as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord’s death till he comes.

Christ washes the disciples’ feet, tells them of Judas the traitor, and commands them to love one another earnestly.

13 Before the feast of Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, to the end he loved them. ² And when supper was ended, after the devil had put in 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 had come from God and was going to God, ⁴ arose from supper and laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself. ⁵ After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his 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, Lord, shall you wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will know hereafter. ⁸ Peter said to him, You shall not wash my feet while the world stands! Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you will 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 washed needs not but to wash his feet, and is clean every whit. And you my disciples are clean – but not all. ¹¹ For he knew his betrayer. Therefore he said, you are not all clean.

¹² After he had washed their feet and received his clothes and was seated again, he said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, 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, so that you will do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly truly I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor the messenger greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you understand these things, happy are you if you do them.

³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified by him. ³² If God is glorified by him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will straightaway glorify him.

³³ Dear children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, where I am going, you cannot come. ³⁴ Also I say to you now, a new commandment I give to you: to love together. As I have loved you, so also should you love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.