The Servant King

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

¹Now nbefore othe Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that phis hour had come qto depart out of this world to the Father, rhaving loved shis own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. ²During supper, when tthe devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, ³Jesus, knowing uthat the Father had given all things into his hands, and that vhe had come from God and wwas going back to God, ⁴rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, xtied it around his waist. ⁵Then he ypoured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ⁶He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” ⁷zJesus answered him, “What I am doing ayou do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” ⁸bPeter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, c“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” ⁹Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” ¹⁰Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, dexcept for his feet,1 but is completely clean. And eyou2 are clean, fbut not every one of you.” ¹¹gFor he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹²When he had washed their feet and hput on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, i“Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³jYou call me kTeacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, lyou also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵For I have given you an example, mthat you also should do just as I have done to you. ¹⁶Truly, truly, I say to you, na servant3 is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, oblessed are you if you do them. ¹⁸pI am not speaking of all of you; I know qwhom I have chosen. But rthe Scripture will be fulfilled,4 s‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ ¹⁹tI am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. ²⁰Truly, truly, I say to you, uwhoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”