John 13:4-17

he rose up from the meal, and he set aside his vestments, and when he had received a towel, he wrapped it around himself. Next he put water into a shallow bowl, and he began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he was wrapped. And then he came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to him, "Lord, would you wash my feet?" Jesus responded and said to him: "What I am doing, you do not now understand. But you shall understand it afterward." Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you will have no place with me." Simon Peter said to him, "Then Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him: "He who is washed need only wash his feet, and then he will be entirely clean. And you are clean, but not all." For he knew which one would betray him. For this reason, he said, "You are not all clean." And so, after he washed their feet and received his vestments, when he had sat down at table again, he said to them: "Do you know what I have done for you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you speak well: for so I am. Therefore, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another. For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done for you, so also should you do. Amen, amen, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, and the apostle is not greater than he who sent him. If you understand this, you shall be blessed if you will do it.