He Washes Their Feet

1Before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

2And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,

4He rises from the supper and lays aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around himself.

5Then he pours water into the washbasin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

6So he comes to Simon Peter. He says to him, “Lord, are you washing my feet?”

7Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but you will understand after these things.”

8Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

9Simon Peter says to him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

10Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed has no need except to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all of you.”

11For he knew the one who was betraying him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.”