Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees of David.

¹ ¶ LORD, my heart has not become haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither have I walked in grandeur, nor in wonderful things above and beyond that which pertains to me.

² Rather I have quieted myself and caused my soul to become silent, that I might be as a child that is weaned of his mother, as one who is weaned from my own life.

³ Let Israel wait for the LORD from now on and for ever.

13 ¶ Thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go and buy thee a linen girdle and put it upon thy loins, and thou shalt not put it in water.

² And I bought the girdle according to the word of the LORD and put it on my loins.

³ And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,

⁴ Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise; go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

⁵ So I went and hid it in the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

⁶ And it came to pass after many days that the LORD said unto me, Arise; go to the Euphrates and take from there the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates and dug and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was rotted, it was good for nothing.

⁸ Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

⁹ Thus hath the LORD said, After this manner I will cause the pride of Judah to rot and the great pride of Jerusalem.

¹⁰ This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

¹¹ For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people and for fame, and for a praise, and for honour; but they did not hear.

13 ¶ Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

² And supper being ended, the devil having now 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 had come from God and was going to God,

⁴ arose from the supper and laid aside his garments and 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 unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

⁷ Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou dost not understand now, but thou shalt understand afterwards.

⁸ Peter said unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.

⁹ Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, He that is washed needs only to wash his feet because he is completely clean, and ye are clean, but not all.

¹¹ For he knew who should betray him; therefore, said he, Ye are not all clean.

¹² So after he had washed their feet and had taken his garments and had sat down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

¹³ Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well, for so I am.

¹⁴ If I then, the Lord and the Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

¹⁵ For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you.

¹⁶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

¹⁷ If ye know these things, ye shall be blessed if ye do them.