1 Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass out of this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the very end.
2 When supper had begun, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray him,
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come out from God and was going back to God,
4 got up from the supper, took off his outer garments, and taking a towel, wrapped it around his waist.
5 Next he poured water into the basin and began washing the disciples' feet and drying them with the towel wrapped around him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but later you will understand."
8 Peter said to him, "Never shall you wash my feet, ever!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no share with me."
9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, then not just my feet, but my hands and my head too!"
10 Jesus told him, "He who has bathed has no need to wash, except for his feet, but is clean all over. And you are clean, though not every one of you."
11 He knew who was going to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."
12 After he had washed their feet, put his garments back on, and taken his place at the table again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done for you?
13 You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and you are right, for that is what I am.
14 So if I, the Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash each other's feet.
15 I have given you an example, so that you also may do as I have done for you.
16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.
17 Now that you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: 'The one who eats bread with me has raised his heel against me.'
19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me."
21 After saying this, Jesus was shaken in spirit and declared, "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you is going to betray me."
22 The disciples kept looking at one another, uncertain which of them he meant.
23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was reclining close against Jesus' bosom.
24 So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he was talking about.
25 Leaning back against Jesus' chest, that disciple asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
26 Jesus answered, "It is the one for whom I will dip this morsel and give it to him." So he dipped the morsel and handed it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.
27 After the morsel, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, "What you are going to do, do it quickly."
28 None of those at the table understood why he said this to him.
29 Since Judas kept the money box, some thought Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
30 So after taking the morsel he went out at once. And it was night.
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him without delay.
33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, so now I tell you too: 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
34 I am giving you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too are to love one another.
35 This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you have love among yourselves."
36 Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now; but later you will follow me."
37 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you right now? I will lay down my life for you!"
38 Jesus answered him, "You will lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, no rooster will crow before you have denied me three times.