As I Have Done for You

12So when he had washed their feet and taken his garments and reclined again, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?”

13You call me Teacher and Lord, and you speak rightly, for I am.

14If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

15For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you, you also may do.

16Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is an apostle greater than the one who sent him.

17If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

18I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But this is so that the Scripture may be fulfilled: ‘The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’

19From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I am he.

20Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.