Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The Passover Lamb

12 Now Yahweh 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 to 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 their 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; according to ^[g]what each man should eat, you are to ^[h]apportion the lamb.

⁵ Your ^[a]lamb shall be ^(A)a male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ^6 [b]And you shall keep it until the ^(B)fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall 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 And they shall eat the flesh ^(E)that 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 burn with fire.

¹¹ Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is ^(A)the Passover of Yahweh. ¹² And ^(B)I will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^(C)against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^(D)I am Yahweh. ^13 (E)And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you ^[a]to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴ ‘Now ^(F)this day will be ^(G)a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^[b](H)a perpetual statute.

I Love Yahweh

²³ For ^(A)I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that ^(B)the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was being 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 took ^(C)the cup also 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 death of the Lord ^(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 out of 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 given all things into His hands, and that ^(G)He had come forth from God and was going back to God, ⁴ *got up from supper, and *laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He ^(H)tied it around Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

⁵ Then He *poured water into the washbasin, and began to ^(I)wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel which He had tied around Himself. ⁶ So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?” ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not realize now, but you will understand ^(J)afterwards.” ⁸ Peter *said to Him, “You will never wash my feet—ever!” Jesus answered him, “^(K)If I do not wash you, ^(L)you have no part with Me.” ⁹ Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, 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, but is completely clean; and ^(M)you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For ^(N)He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹² So 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 to you? ¹³ You call Me ^(P)Teacher and ^(Q)Lord; and ^[b]you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, ^(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 that you also should do as I did to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(T)a slave is not greater than his master, nor is ^(U)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 gone out, 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 with you ^(F)a little while longer. ^(G)You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ ³⁴ A ^(H)new commandment I give to you, ^(I)that you love one another, ^(J)even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ^35 (K)By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”