1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 And after supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,
4 He rose from the supper and laid aside His garments, and having taken a towel, He girded Himself.
5 Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to dry [them] with the towel with which He was girded.
6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"
7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you shall know after this."
8 Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!"Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me."
9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"
10 Jesus said to him, "He that is bathed need only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."
11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean."
12 So when He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, He reclined again, and said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say correctly, for so I am.
14 Therefore if I, your Lord and your Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I gave you an example, that just as I did to you, you also should do.
16 Most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than he who sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.