3-6. Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, “Master, you wash my feet?”
7. Jesus answered, “You don’t understand now what I’m doing, but it will be clear enough to you later.”
8. Peter persisted, “You’re not going to wash my feet—ever!”Jesus said, “If I don’t wash you, you can’t be part of what I’m doing.”
9. “Master!” said Peter. “Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!”
18-20. “I’m not including all of you in this. I know precisely whom I’ve selected, so as not to interfere with the fulfillment of this Scripture:The one who ate bread at my tableTurned on his heel against me.“I’m telling you all this ahead of time so that when it happens you will believe that I am who I say I am. Make sure you get this right: Receiving someone I send is the same as receiving me, just as receiving me is the same as receiving the One who sent me.”
21. After he said these things, Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why. “One of you is going to betray me.”
22-25. The disciples looked around at one another, wondering who on earth he was talking about. One of the disciples, the one Jesus loved dearly, was reclining against him, his head on his shoulder. Peter motioned to him to ask who Jesus might be talking about. So, being the closest, he said, “Master, who?”
26-27. Jesus said, “The one to whom I give this crust of bread after I’ve dipped it.” Then he dipped the crust and gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. As soon as the bread was in his hand, Satan entered him.“What you must do,” said Jesus, “do. Do it and get it over with.”
28-29. No one around the supper table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the Feast, or that he should give something to the poor.
30. Judas, with the piece of bread, left. It was night.