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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 13 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > John 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/12.htm" title="John 12">◄</a> John 13 <a href="../john/14.htm" title="John 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/john/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit except for his feet">a</a></sup></span> but is completely clean. And you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek words for you in this verse are plural">b</a></sup></span> are clean, but not every one of you.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, <span class="woc">“Not all of you are clean.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, <span class="woc">“Do you understand what I have done to you?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woc">You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="woc">If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="woc">For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woc">Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or bondservant, or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)">c</a></sup></span> is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="woc">If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woc">I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek But in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled">d</a></sup></span> ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="woc">I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="woc">Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”</span></p> <p class="heading">One of You Will Betray Me</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, <span class="woc">“Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek in the bosom of Jesus">e</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek lacks Jesus">f</a></sup></span> of whom he was speaking. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="woc">“It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.”</span> So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“What you are going to do, do quickly.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.</p> <p class="heading">A New Commandment</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>When he had gone out, Jesus said, <span class="woc">“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="woc">If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="woc">Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="woc">A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="woc">By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Jesus Foretells Peter’s Denial</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="woc">“Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Some manuscripts omit <i class="catch-word">except for his feet</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> The Greek words for <i class="catch-word">you</i> in this verse are plural<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>bondservant</i>, or <i>slave</i> (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word <i language="Greek">doulos</i>, see <a href="../">>Preface</a>)<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">But</span> in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> Greek <i>in the bosom of Jesus</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> Greek lacks <i class="catch-word">Jesus</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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