Part 22

012:048 He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

012:049 Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

012:050 And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages. What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."

013:001 Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

013:002 While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

013:003 although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God,

013:004 rose from the table, threw off His upper garments, and took a towel and tied it round Him.

013:005 Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel which He had put round Him.

013:006 When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said, "are *you* going to wash my feet?"

013:007 "What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know."

013:008 "Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus, "you have no share with me."

013:009 "Master," said Peter, "wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."

013:010 "Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."

013:011 For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said, "You are not all of you clean."

013:012 So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

013:013 You call me `The Rabbi' and `The Master,' and rightly so, for such I am.

013:014 If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

013:015 For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

013:016 In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.

013:017 If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

013:018 I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, `He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

013:019 From this time forward I tell you things before they happen, in order that when they do happen you may believe that I am He.

013:020 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him who sent me."

013:021 After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

013:022 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know to which of them He was referring.

013:023 There was at table one of His disciples--the one Jesus loved-- reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom.

013:024 Making a sign therefore to him, Simon Peter said, "Tell us to whom he is referring."

013:025 So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked, "Master, who is it?"