John 13

¹Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

²And during supper, the devil having already put it into the heart that Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, should betray him —

³Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God and is going to God,

⁴he rises from the supper and lays aside his garments, and taking a towel he girded himself.

⁵Then he pours water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

⁶He comes therefore to Simon Peter; and he says to him, Lord, do you wash my feet?

⁷Jesus answered and said to him: What I do you do not know now, but you will understand after these things.

⁸Peter says to him: You shall never wash my feet forever! Jesus answered him: If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.

⁹Simon Peter says to him: Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!

¹⁰Jesus says to him: The one who has bathed does not need to wash except his feet, but is wholly clean; and you disciples are clean, but not all of you.

¹¹For he knew the one who was betraying him; on account of this he said: Not all of you are clean.

¹²When therefore he had washed their feet and taken his garments and reclined again, he said to them: Do you understand what I have done to you?

¹³You call me the Teacher and the Lord, and you speak rightly; for I am.

¹⁴If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet;

¹⁵For I have given you an example, so that just as I did to you, you also should do.

¹⁶Truly, truly, I say to you: a slave is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

¹⁷If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

¹⁸I do not speak concerning all of you; I know whom I chose; but so that the Scripture may be fulfilled: The one eating my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁹From now I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does come to pass you may believe that I am.

²⁰Truly, truly, I say to you: the one who receives anyone I send receives me; and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.

²¹Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified and said: Truly, truly, I say to you that one of you will betray me.

²²The disciples therefore kept looking at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking.

²³Now there was reclining in the bosom of Jesus one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

²⁴Simon Peter therefore nods to this one and says to him: Tell us, who is it he is speaking about?

²⁵That one then, leaning back thus on the breast of Jesus, says to him: Lord, who is it?

²⁶Jesus therefore answers: It is the one to whom I will dip the morsel and give it to him. So having dipped the morsel he takes and gives it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.

²⁷And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Jesus therefore says to him: What you are doing, do more quickly.

²⁸Now this no one of those reclining at table understood — for what purpose he said this to him.

²⁹For some were thinking, since Judas had the money bag, that Jesus was telling him: Buy what things we need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰That one therefore, having received the morsel, immediately went out. And it was night.

³¹When therefore he had gone out, Jesus says: Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him,

³²[If God is glorified in him,] God will also glorify him in himself, and immediately will glorify him.

³³Little children, I am yet a little while with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jewish leaders that where I go you are not able to come, so I also say to you now.

³⁴A new commandment I give you — that you love one another, even as I have loved you, so that you also may love one another.

³⁵By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among one another.

³⁶Simon Peter says to him: Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered him: Where I am going you are not able to follow me now; but you will follow afterward.

³⁷Peter says to him, 'Lord, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.'

³⁸Jesus answers him, Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen I say to you, the rooster will certainly not crow until you have denied me three times.