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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/john/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“No,” Peter protested, “you will never ever wash my feet!”</p><p class="reg">Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Simon Peter exclaimed, “Then wash my hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> to be entirely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not all of you.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For Jesus knew who would betray him. That is what he meant when he said, <span class="red">“Not all of you are clean.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After washing their feet, he put on his robe again and sat down and asked, <span class="red">“Do you understand what I was doing?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that’s what I am.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">I have given you an example to follow. Do 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="red">I tell you the truth, slaves are not greater than their master. Nor is the messenger more important than the one who sends the message.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.</span></p><p class="hdg">Jesus Predicts His Betrayal</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am not saying these things to all of you; I know the ones I have chosen. But this fulfills the Scripture that says, ‘The one who eats my food has turned against me.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">I tell you this beforehand, so that when it happens you will believe that </span><span class="red"><span class="sc">I Am</span></span><span class="red"> the Messiah.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">I tell you the truth, anyone who welcomes my messenger is welcoming me, and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming the Father who sent me.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Jesus was deeply troubled,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> and he exclaimed, <span class="red">“I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me!”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom he could mean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Simon Peter motioned to him to ask, “Who’s he talking about?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So that disciple leaned over to Jesus and asked, “Lord, who is it?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus responded, <span class="red">“It is the one to whom I give the bread I dip in the bowl.”</span> And when he had dipped it, he gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When Judas had eaten the bread, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus told him, <span class="red">“Hurry and do what you’re going to do.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>None of the others at the table knew what Jesus meant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Since Judas was their treasurer, some thought Jesus was telling him to go and pay for the food or to give some money to the poor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So Judas left at once, going out into the night.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>As soon as Judas left the room, Jesus said, <span class="red">“The time has come for the Son of Man<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> to enter into his glory, and God will be glorified because of him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">And since God receives glory because of the Son,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> he will give his own glory to the Son, and he will do so at once.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Simon Peter asked, “Lord, where are you going?”</p><p class="reg">And Jesus replied, <span class="red">“You can’t go with me now, but you will follow me later.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“But why can’t I come now, Lord?” he asked. “I’m ready to die for you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/13-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“Die for me? I tell you the truth, Peter—before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know me.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">he showed them the full extent of his love.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the devil had already intended for Judas.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:10 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not include </span><span class="it">except for the feet.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Ps 41:9.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">that the ‘</span><span class="sc"><span class="it">I Am</span></span><span class="it">’ has come;</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">that I am the </span><span class="sc"><span class="it">Lord</span></span><span class="it">;</span><span class="ft"> Greek reads </span><span class="it">that I am.</span><span class="ft"> See Exod 3:14.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:21 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">was troubled in his spirit.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">was reclining on Jesus’ bosom.</span><span class="ft"> The “disciple Jesus loved” was probably John.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:31 </span><span class="ft">“Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:32 </span><span class="ft">Several early manuscripts do not include </span><span class="it">And since God receives glory because of the Son.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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