13 ¹ IT WAS BEFORE the Passover festival. Jesus knew that his hour had come and he must leave this world and go to the Father. He had always loved his own who were in the world, and now he was to show the full extent of his love.
13 ² The devil had already put it into the mind of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. During supper, 13 ³ Jesus, well aware that the Father had entrusted everything to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 13 ⁴ rose from table, laid aside his garments, and taking a towel, tied it round him. 13 ⁵ Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel.
13 ⁶ When it was Simon Peter's turn, Peter said to him, 'You, Lord, washing my feet?' 13 ⁷ Jesus replied, 'You do not understand now what I am doing, but one day you will.' 13 ⁸ Peter said, 'I will never let you wash my feet.' 'If I do not wash you,' Jesus replied, 'you are not in fellowship with me.' 13 ⁹ 'Then, Lord,' said Simon Peter, 'not my feet only; wash my hands and head as well!'
13 ¹⁰ Jesus said, 'A man who has bathed needs no further washing; Some witnesses read: needs only to wash his feet. he is altogether clean; and you are clean, though not every one of you.' 13 ¹¹ He added the words 'not every one of you' because he knew who was going to betray him.

13 ¹² After washing their feet and taking his garments again, he sat down. 'Do you understand', he asked, 'what I have done for you? 13 ¹³ You call me "Master" and "Lord", and rightly so, for that is what I am. 13 ¹⁴ Then if I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 13 ¹⁵ I have set you an example: you are to do as I have done for you. 13 ¹⁶ In very truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor a messenger than the one who sent him. 13 ¹⁷ If you know this, happy are you if you act upon it.
13 ^{18 [ Ps.41.9. ]} 'I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But there is a text of Scripture to be fulfilled: "He who eats bread with me has turned against me." Literally: has lifted his heel against me. 13 ¹⁹ I tell you this now, before the event, that when it happens you may believe that I am what I am. 13 ²⁰ In very truth I tell you, he who receives any messenger of mine receives me; receiving me, he receives the One who sent me.'