Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

The Passover Lamb

12 Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ^[a]Egypt, ² “^(A)This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you. ³ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a ^[b]lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a ^[c]lamb for ^[d]each household. ⁴ Now if the household is too small for a ^[e]lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ^[f]number of persons in them; in proportion to ^[g]what each one should eat, you are to ^[h]divide the lamb.

⁵ Your ^[a]lamb shall be ^(A)an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ^6 [b]You shall keep it until the ^(B)fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it ^[c](C)at twilight. ^7 (D)Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ^[d]of the houses in which they eat it. ⁸ They shall eat the flesh ^(E)that same night, ^(F)roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^(G)unleavened bread ^[e](H)and bitter herbs. ⁹ Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather ^(I)roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with ^(J)its entrails. ^10 (K)And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall completely burn with fire.

¹¹ Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment ^[a]belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is ^(A)the Lord’s Passover. ¹² For ^(B)I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and fatally strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the human firstborn to animals; and ^(C)against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^(D)I am the Lord. ^13 (E)The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you ^[b]live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you ^[c]to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴ ‘Now ^(F)this day shall be ^(G)a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^[d](H)a permanent ordinance.

Thanksgiving for Rescue from Death.

The Lord’s Supper

²³ For ^(A)I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that ^(B)the Lord Jesus, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread; ²⁴ and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” ²⁵ In the same way He also took ^(C)the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the ^(D)new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death ^(E)until He comes.

The Lord’s Supper

13 Now before the Feast of ^(A)the Passover, Jesus, knowing that ^(B)His hour had come that He would depart from this world ^(C)to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them ^[a]to the end. ² And during supper, ^(D)the devil having already put into the heart of ^(E)Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, ³ Jesus, ^(F)knowing that the Father had handed all things over to Him, and that ^(G)He had come forth from God and was going back to God, ⁴ *got up from supper and *laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and ^(H)tied it around Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

⁵ Then He *poured water into the basin, and began ^(I)washing the disciples’ feet and wiping them with the towel which He had tied around Himself. ⁶ So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, You are washing my feet?” ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not realize right now, but you will understand ^(J)later.” ⁸ Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “^(K)If I do not wash you, ^(L)you have no ^[b]place with Me.” ⁹ Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!” ¹⁰ Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet; otherwise he is completely clean. And ^(M)you are clean—but ^[c]not all of you.” ¹¹ For ^(N)He knew the one who was betraying Him; it was for this reason that He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹² Then, when He had washed their feet, and ^(O)taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? ¹³ You call Me ^(P)‘Teacher’ and ^(Q)‘Lord’; and ^[d]you are correct, for so I am. ¹⁴ So if I, ^(R)the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For I gave you ^(S)an example, so that you also would do just as I did for you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly I say to you, ^(T)a slave is not greater than his master, nor is ^(U)[e]one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, you are ^(V)blessed if you do them.

³¹ Therefore when he had left, Jesus *said, “Now ^[a]is ^(A)the Son of Man ^(B)glorified, and ^(C)God ^[b]is glorified in Him; ^32 [c]if God is glorified in Him, ^(D)God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. ^33 (E)Little children, I am still with you ^(F)a little longer. ^(G)You will look for Me; and just as I said to the ^[d]Jews, now I also say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ ³⁴ I am giving you a ^(H)new commandment, ^(I)that you love one another; ^(J)just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ^35 (K)By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.”