John 13:11-29

¹¹For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹²After Jesus had washed their feet, he put his robe back on, and sat down. “Do you understand what I've done to you?” he asked them.

¹³“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that's who I am.

¹⁴So if I, your Teacher and Lord, washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet.

¹⁵I have set you an example, so you should do just as I did.

¹⁶I tell you the truth, servants are not more important than their master, and the one sent is not greater than the sender.

¹⁷Now that you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

¹⁸I'm not talking about all of you—I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill Scripture: ‘The one who shares my food has turned against me.’

¹⁹I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so when it does happen you will be convinced that I am who I am.

²⁰I tell you the truth, whoever welcomes anyone I send welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me, welcomes the one who sent me.”

²¹After he had said this, Jesus was deeply troubled, and declared: “I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me.”

²²The disciples looked at each other, wondering which of them Jesus was talking about.

²³The disciple whom Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table, leaning close him.

²⁴Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus which one he was talking about.

²⁵So he leaned over to Jesus and asked, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶Jesus replied, “It's the one to whom I will give a piece of bread after I have dipped it.”

²⁷After dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. Once Judas had taken the bread, Satan entered him. “What you're going to do, do it quickly,” Jesus told him.

²⁸No one at the table understood what Jesus meant by this.

²⁹Since Judas was in charge of the money some of them thought that Jesus was telling him to go and buy what was needed for the Passover festival, or to donate something to the poor.