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¹NOW before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew the hour had come to depart from this world to his Father. He loved his own who were in this world, and he loved them to the end. ²During supper, he put Satan into the heart of Judah, son of Simon Iscariot, to deliver him. ³But Jesus, because he knew that the Father had given everything into his hands and that he came from God and was going to God, ⁴Rose from supper and laid aside his robe; and he took a cloth and tied it around his loins. ⁵Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the cloth which was tied around his loins. ⁶When he came to Simon Peter, Simon said to him, Are you, my Lord, going to wash my feet? ⁷Jesus answered, saying to him, What I am doing, you do not know now, but later you will understand. ⁸Then Simon Peter said to him, You will never wash my feet. Jesus said to him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with me. ⁹Simon Peter said to him, My Lord, then wash not only my feet but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰Jesus said to him, He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, for he is already clean; so you are clean, but not everyone of you. ¹¹For Jesus knew who was to betray him; therefore he said, Not everyone of you is clean.

¹²When he had washed their feet, he put on his robes and sat down; and he said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³You call me Teacher and Lord; and I am, what you say is correct. ¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, how much more should you wash one another's feet? ¹⁵For I have given you this as an example, so that just as I have done to you, you should do also. ¹⁶Truly, truly, I say to you, There is no servant who is greater than his master; and no apostle who is greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. ¹⁸I do not say this concerning all of you, for I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹I tell you now before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. ²⁰Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives him whom I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ²¹Jesus said these things, and he was disturbed in spirit, and testified, saying, Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me. ²²The disciples then looked at each other, because they did not know who he spoke about.

²³Now there was one of his disciples who was leaning on his chest, the one whom Jesus loved. ²⁴Simon Peter gestured to him, to ask him of whom he spoke. ²⁵So that disciple leaned himself on the breast of Jesus, and said to him, My Lord, who is he? ²⁶Jesus answered, saying, The one for whom I dip bread and give it to him. So Jesus dipped the bread, and gave it to Judah, the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷And after the bread, Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him, What you are going to do, do it soon. ²⁸But of those sitting at the table not a man understood what he said to him. ²⁹For some of them thought, because the purse was with Judah, that he ordered him to buy what was needed for the feast or to give something to the poor. ³⁰So Judah then received the bread and went outside immediately; and it was night when he went out.

³¹Then Jesus said, Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified by him. ³²If God is glorified by him, God will also glorify him by himself, and he will glorify him at once. ³³My sons, I am with you yet a little while, and you will seek me. And just as I said to the Jews, Where I go you cannot come; the same I also now tell you. ³⁴A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵By this every man will know that you are my disciples, if you have love, one for another.

³⁶Simon Peter said to him, Our Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered, saying to him, Where I go you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later. ³⁷Simon Peter said to him, My Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will even lay down my life for you. ³⁸Jesus said to him, Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, The rooster will not crow, until you have denied me 3 times.