John 13:2-25

²We were eating the Passover meal. ◄The devil/Satan► had already suggested to Judas ◄Iscariot/the man from Kerioth village►, the son of Simon, that he should ◄betray Jesus/enable Jesus' enemies to seize him►.

³But Jesus knew that his Father had given to him complete authority to control the situation. He knew that he had come from God and would soon return to God.

⁴But before he left us, he wanted to show us how we should love each other. So he got up from where he was eating. He took off his outer cloak and wrapped a long towel around his waist, as a slave would do.

⁵Then he poured some water in a basin. He began to wash our feet, and then dry them with the towel that he had wrapped around himself.

⁶When he came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord, it is not right for you RHQ to humble yourself by washing my feet!”

⁷Jesus replied to him, “Now you do not understand the meaning of what I am doing, but you will understand later.”

⁸Peter said, “I will never, ever, allow you to wash my feet!” Jesus replied to him, “If I do not wash you, you cannot continue ◄to be my disciple/to belong to me►.”

⁹So Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, in that case, do not wash only my feet. Wash my hands and my head, too!”

¹⁰Then, to show him that after God had cleansed people from being guilty for sin, they needed only for God to forgive their daily sins MET, Jesus said to him, “Those who have recently bathed need only to have their feet washed, because they get dirty very quickly on the dusty roads. The rest of their bodies are clean. Similarly, I have made you disciples free/clean from the guilt of your sins, although not all of you are free from guilt.”

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?”