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

2 During supper, the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, 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 rose from supper and laid aside his upper garments and took a towel and put it around him.

5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel he had around him.

6 He came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, "Master, are you washing my feet?"

7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now; but you will know hereafter."

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, "Master, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head."

10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed has no need to be washed, except his feet, but is all clean. And you are clean, though not all."

11 For he knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "You are not all clean."

12 When he had washed their feet and had taken his upper garments and lain down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

13 You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am.

14 If then I, the Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet.

15 For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you.

16 Truly, truly, I tell you, the servant is not superior to his master nor the messenger superior to him who sent him.

17 If you know these things, blessed are you \'97 if you do them.