So it was that Jesus knowing fully aware that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was now returning to God, that He got up from supper. He took off His garments, and taking a servantīs towel, He fastened it around His waist. Then He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciplesī feet and to wipe them with the servantīs towel with which He was girded.

When He came to Simon Peter, Peter said to Him, “Lord, are my feet to be washed by You? Is it for You to wash my feet?”

Jesus said to him, “You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later.”

Peter said to Him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with or in Me, you have no share in companionship with Me otherwise.”

Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but my hands and my head too!”

Jesus said to him, “Anyone, who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you, My disciples are clean, but not all of you. “ For He knew who was going to betray Him; that was the reason He said, Not all of you are clean. So when He finished washing their feet and had put on his garments and had sat down again, He said to them. “Do you understand what I have done to you?”

You call Me the Teacher, Master and the Lord, and you are right in doing so, for that is what I am. If I then, you Lord and Teacher have washed your feet, you ought, it is your duty and you are under obligation, you owe it to wash one anotherīs feet. For I have given you this as an example, so that you should do in your turn what I have done to you. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master is and no one who is sent is superior to the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed and happy and to be envied are you if you practice them, if you act accordingly and really do them. I am not speaking of and I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled. He who eats My bread with Me has raised up his heel against Me. (Psalm 49:9). I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it does take place you may be persuaded and believe that I am He who I say I am - the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah! I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who receives and welcomes and takes into his heart any messenger of Mine receives Me in just that way.”

Judas Iscariot the Deceiver

After Jesus had said these things, He was troubled, disturbed, agitated in spirit and said, “I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, one of you will deliver Me up, one of you will be false to Me and betray Me!”

The disciples kept looking at one another, puzzled as to whom He could mean. One of the disciples, whom Jesus loved, whom He esteemed and delighted in, was reclining next to Him on Jesusī bosom. So Simon Peter motioned to him to ask of whom He was speaking. Then leaning back against Jesusī breast, he asked Him, “Lord who is it?”

Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I am going to give this morsel of food after I have dipped it. So when He had dipped the morsel of bread into the dish, He gave t to Judas, Simon Iscariotīs son. Then after he had taken the bit of food, Satan entered into and took possession of Judas. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do more swiftly than you seem to intend and make quick work of it.”

But no one reclining at the table knew why He spoke to him or what He meant by telling him this. Some thought that, since Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, ‘Buy what we need for the Festival, or that he should give something to the poor. So after receiving the bit of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.