Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

The Passover Instituted^(A)

12 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: ² This month shall be the beginning of months to you. It shall be the first month of the year to you. ³ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a household. ⁴ And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to what each man shall eat, divide the lamb.

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats. ⁶ You shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. ⁷ They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses in which they shall eat it. ⁸ They shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ⁹ Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and its entrails. ¹⁰ And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, but that of it which remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.

¹¹ In this way shall you eat it: with your waist girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.

¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. ¹³ The blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ This day shall be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord. Throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an eternal ordinance.

Psalm 116

The Lord’s Supper^(A)

²³ I have received of the Lord that which I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which He was betrayed, took bread. ²⁴ When He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take and eat. This is My body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”^{[a] 25} In the same manner He took the cup after He had supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”^{[b] 26} As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

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.

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.”