John 13
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Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet
1Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. # 13:1 Jn 10:18; 12:23; 16:28 Having loved his own who were in the world, # 13:1 Jn 1:11; 6:37 he loved them to the end.
2Now when it was time for supper, the devil # 13:2 Mt 4:1,10; Jn 8:44; Ac 13:10 had already put it into the heart of Judas, # 13:2 Mk 3:19 Simon Iscariot’s son, # 13:2 Or Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son to betray # 13:2 Mt 10:4; Jn 12:4; 13:21 him. 3Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, # 13:3 Mt 11:27; 28:18; Jn 17:2 that he had come from God, # 13:3 Jn 8:42; 16:27; 17:8 and that he was going back to God. # 13:3 Jn 8:14; 14:12; 16:28; 17:11 4So he got up from supper, laid aside his outer clothing, # 13:4 Lk 19:36 took a towel, and tied it around himself. # 13:4 Lk 12:37 5Next, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around him.
6He came to Simon Peter, # 13:6 Mt 16:17 who asked him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet? ”
7Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t realize now, but afterward you will understand.” # 13:7 Jn 3:11; 7:28; 12:16
8“You will never wash my feet,” Peter said.
Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”
9Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”
10 “One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” 11For he knew who would betray him. This is why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
The Meaning of Foot Washing
12When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer clothing, he reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? 13You call me Teacher and Lord — and you are speaking rightly, since that is what I am. 14So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. # 13:14 1Tm 5:10; 1Pt 5:5 15For I have given you an example, # 13:15 1Pt 2:21 that you also should do just as I have done for you.
16 “Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, # 13:16 Or lord,# 13:16 Jn 15:20 and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. 17If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. # 13:17 Mt 7:24–25; Lk 6:47; 11:28; Jms 1:22–25
18 “I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. # 13:18 Jn 6:70; Eph 1:4 But the Scripture # 13:18 Mt 26:54 must be fulfilled: # 13:18 Mt 1:22 The one who eats my bread # 13:18 Other mss read eats bread with me has raised his heel against me. # 13:18 Ps 41:9,# 13:18 Ps 41:9 19I am telling you now before it happens, # 13:19 Jn 13:19 so that when it does happen you will believe # 13:19 Mk 11:24; Jn 3:16; Ac 10:43; Rm 10:9; 1Pt 1:8–10 that I am he. # 13:19 Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58 20Truly I tell you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives # 13:20 Jn 5:43; 2Jn 10 me receives him who sent me.”
Judas’s Betrayal Predicted
21When # 13:21–30 Mt 26:20–25; Mk 14:17–21; Lk 22:21–23 Jesus had said this, he was troubled in his spirit # 13:21 Ps 51:12 and testified, # 13:21 Jn 15:26; Ac 26:5 “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”
22The disciples started looking at one another — uncertain which one he was speaking about. 23One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, # 13:23 Jn 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20 was reclining close beside Jesus. # 13:23 Lit reclining at Jesus’s breast; that is, on his right; Jn 1:18 24Simon Peter motioned to him to find out who it was he was talking about. 25So he leaned back against Jesus and asked him, “Lord, who is it? ”
26Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.” # 13:26 Ps 41:9 When he had dipped the bread, # 13:26 Mk 14:20 he gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son. # 13:26 Or Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son 27After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan # 13:27 Mt 4:1,10; Jn 8:44; Ac 13:10 entered him. So Jesus told him, “What you’re doing, do quickly.”
28None of those reclining at the table knew why he said this to him. 29Since Judas # 13:29 Mk 3:19 kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” # 13:29 Jn 2:23 or that he should give something to the poor. 30After receiving the piece of bread, he immediately left. And it was night. # 13:30 Jn 9:4
The New Command
31When # 13:31–38 Mt 26:31–35; Mk 14:27–31; Lk 22:31–38 he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man # 13:31 Mk 2:10 is glorified, and God is glorified # 13:31 Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12 in him. # 13:31 2Th 1:12; 1Jn 2:5 32If God is glorified in him, # 13:32 Other mss omit If God is glorified in him God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. 33Little children, I am with you a little while longer. # 13:33 Jn 7:33 You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ # 13:33 Jn 8:21–22; 14:2; 16:5
34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love # 13:35 1Co 13:1 one another.”
Peter’s Denials Predicted
36“Lord,” Simon Peter said to him, “where are you going? ”
Jesus answered, “Where I am going # 13:36 Jn 14:2; 16:5 you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”
37“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life # 13:37 1Jn 3:16 for you.” # 13:37 Mk 14:31
38Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly I tell you, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times.
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Yochanan 13
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1Now before the Chag (Feast) of the Pesach, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having da'as that his sha'ah (hour, time) had come, his sha'ah when he should pass from the Olam Hazeh to HaAv, having had ahavah for his own in the Olam Hazeh, he had ahavah for them to HaKetz. 2And seudah taking place, HaSatan already having put into the lev of Yehudah Ben Shim'on from K'riot that he should betray him, 3And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach having had da'as that HaAv had given into his hands all things, and that from Hashem Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came forth and to Hashem he is going, 4He rises from the seudah and puts aside his me'il and kesones, girding himself with a towel. 5He puts mayim (water) into the basin and began to wash the raglei hatalmidim and to wipe them with the towel with which he had been girded. 6Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes then to Shim'on Kefa. Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, you wash my feet? 7In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Of what I am doing you do not have da'as now, but you will receive binah after these things. 8Kefa says to him, Never will you wash my feet l'Olam! Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered him, Unless I wash you, you do not have a chelek (alloted portion of inheritance) with me.#13:8 Dt 12:12; Isa 53:10; Lv 5:15-16 9Shim'on Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, then not my feet only but also my hands and my head. 10Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, The one having been bathed does not have need except his feet to wash, but is wholly tahor, and you are tehorim, though not all. 11For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had da'as of the one betraying him. Therefore, he said, Not all are tehorim.
12Therefore, when he washed their feet and resuited himself into his kaftan, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reclined at tish again and said to them, Do you have da'as of what I have done for you? 13You call me Rabbeinu and Adoneinu, and you say well, for Ani Hu. 14If, therefore, I, being Rebbe and Adon, washed your feet, you ought to wash the feet of one another also. 15For I gave you a mofet that as I did to you, you may do also. 16Omein, omein, I say to you, an eved is not greater than his Adon, nor is a shliach (one sent) greater than his Meshalle'ach (Sender). 17If you have da'as of these things, happy are you, if you put them into practice. 18I do not speak about all of you — I have da'as of whom I chose — But it is to fulfill the Kitvei Hakodesh, OKHEL LAKHEMI HIGDIL ALAI AKEV (the one eating my bread he lifted up his heel against me).#13:18 Ps 41:9 [10] 19From now on I tell you before the occurrence that you may have emunah (faith) when it occurs, that Ani Hu.#13:19 Isa 41:4; 46:10; 43:10 20Omein, omein, I say to you, the one receiving whomever I may send receives me, and the one receiving me,#13:20 Moshiach receives the One having sent me.#13:20 Hashem
21Having said these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was spiritually troubled and he gave solemn edut (testimony), and said, Omein, omein, I say to you, that one of you will betray me. 22Moshiachʼs talmidim were looking at one another, being uncertain about whom he speaks. 23One of his talmidim was reclining at tish near the kheyk (bosom) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach — the talmid haahuv. 24Therefore Shim'on Kefa nods to this one to inquire who it may be about whom Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach speaks. 25Having leaned back, then, that one thus near the kheyk Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, says to him, Adoni, who is it? 26He answers, That one it is to whom I will dip the#13:26 maror into the charoset morsel and will give to him. Having dipped, therefore, he takes the#13:26 maror, charoset, matzah morsel and gives to Yehudah Ben Shim'on from K'riot. 27And after he received the#13:27 maror, charoset, matzah morsel, then HaSatan entered into that man; therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, What you are bent on doing, do quickly. 28But no one reclining at tish had da'as of why he said this to him. 29For some were thinking vi-bahlt (since) Yehudah from K'riot had the aron otzaram (chest of treasury), that he says to him, Buy the things which we need for the Chag (Feast) or that he should give ma'ot chittim (money for wheat financial contributions) for haAniyim (the poor). 30Therefore, having taken the morsel, that man went out immediately. And it was lailah (night).
31When, therefore that man went out, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, Now the Bar Enosh#13:31 Dan 7:13-14 receives kavod and Hashem is given kavod in him. 32If Hashem receives kavod in him, Hashem will also give him kavod in himself, and Hashem will give him kavod immediately. 33Yeladim, yet a little while I am with you; you will seek me, and as I said to those of Yehudah, Where I go away, you are not able to come. Also to you I say this now. 34A mitzvah chadasha I give to you, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other, as I have had ahavah (agape) for you, so also you have ahavah (agape) one for the other.#13:34 Lv 19:18 35By this will kol Bnei Adam have da'as that my talmidim you are, if ahavah you have one for the other.
36Shim'on Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, where are you going? In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered him, Where I go, you are not able now to follow me, but you will follow later. 37Kefa says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my neshamah for you. 38Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answers, Your neshamah for me will you lay down? Omein, omein, I say to you, a tarnegol will not crow until you make hakhchashah (denial) of me#13:38 as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach shloshah times.
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