1Now it was just before the feast of the Passover. Jesus knew that his hour had come, when he would leave this world and go to the Father. He had loved his own people who were in the world, and he loved them to the end.
2Supper was ended. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.
3Jesus knew that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God.
4So he got up from the supper and took off his outer clothes. He took a towel and tied it round himself.
5After that he poured water into a basin. He began to wash the disciples' feet, and to dry them with the towel that was tied round him.
6Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
7Jesus answered him, "You do not know now what I am doing, but you will know later."
8Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with me."
9Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head."
10Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has been washed does not need to wash anything but his feet. He is clean all over. And you are clean, but not all of you."
11For he knew who was going to betray him. That is why he said, "You are not all clean."
12So when he had washed their feet, he put on his clothes and sat down again. He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?"
13"You call me Master and Lord, and you speak rightly, for that is what I am."
14"So if I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet."
15"For I have given you an example, so that you should do as I have done to you."
16"I tell you the truth, the servant is not greater than his lord, and the one who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him."
17"If you know these things, you are happy if you do them."
18"I am not speaking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is so that the scripture may be fulfilled: 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'"
19"I am telling you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe that I am he."
20"I tell you the truth, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me."
21When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit. He said openly, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me."
22Then the disciples looked at one another, not sure which of them he meant.
23Now one of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was leaning close to Jesus.
25He leaned back on Jesus' chest and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"
26Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread, when I have dipped it." And when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27After the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you are doing, do quickly."
28No one at the table knew why he said this to him.
29Some of them thought that, because Judas kept the money bag, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
30So after he had taken the piece of bread, he went out at once. And it was night.
31When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him."
32"If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him at once."
33"Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say it to you."
34"I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you are to love one another."
35"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
36Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me afterwards."
37Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
38Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, the cock will not crow until you have denied me three times."