John 13:1-17

¹Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

²So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

³Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

⁴Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.

⁵Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.

⁶So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?

⁷And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.

⁸Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.

⁹Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.

¹⁰Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

¹¹(He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.)

¹²Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you?

¹³You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.

¹⁴If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

¹⁵I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.

¹⁶Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

¹⁷If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.