John 13:11-29

¹¹He knew which one of us was going to betray him. That is the reason he said, “Not all of you are free from guilt.”

¹²After he finished washing our feet, he put his cloak back on. Then he sat down and said to us, “Do you understand what I have done for you?

¹³You show that you respect me by calling me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’. You are right to say that, because I am your teacher and your Lord.

¹⁴But if I, who am your teacher and your Lord, have washed your feet, you ought to serve each other by doing things like washing each other's feet.

¹⁵I have made myself an example for you in order that you should humbly serve each other as I have done for you.

¹⁶Listen to this carefully: A servant is not greater than his master. A messenger is not greater than the one who has sent him. So, since you are not greater than I am, you should not be proud and unwilling to serve each other.

¹⁷Since you now know these things, God will be pleased with you if you do them.”

¹⁸“I am not saying that God will bless all of you. I knew what all of you were like when I chose you. But I also chose the one who will betray me, in order that what is written in Scripture might be fulfilled {to fulfill what someone/the psalmist wrote in Scripture}, ‘The one who is acting like he is my friend by eating with me has become my enemy IDM.’

¹⁹I am telling you about someone betraying me before it happens, in order that when it happens, you may continue to believe that I am ◄ the Messiah/who I say I am►.

²⁰Listen to this carefully: Those who accept any one of you whom I am sending out, God will consider that they are accepting me. And those who accept me, God will consider that they are accepting my Father, who sent me.”

²¹After Jesus said this, he was very troubled. He solemnly declared, “Listen to this carefully: One of you is going to enable my enemies to seize me.”

²²We looked at each other. We had no way to know whom he was talking about.

²³I, the man other people call ❛the one Jesus loved❜, was sitting very close to Jesus.

²⁴Simon Peter motioned to me to indicate that I should ask Jesus whom he was talking about.

²⁵So I leaned close to Jesus and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I dip it in the sauce in the dish.” Then, to show us that he knew who would enable his enemies to seize him, after he dipped the bread in the sauce, he gave it to Judas ◄Iscariot/the man from Kerioth village►.

²⁷As soon as Judas ate the bread, Satan took control of him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”

²⁸But none of the rest of us who were sitting there knew why Jesus said that to him.

²⁹Since Judas took care of the money people gave us to help us, some thought Jesus was telling him to go and buy some things we needed for the Passover celebration. Some thought he was telling him to give some money to poor people.