John 13-17

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Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

13 It was just before the Passover Festival.^(A) Jesus knew that the hour had come^(B) for him to leave this world and go to the Father.^(C) Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

² The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.^{(D) 3} Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power,^(E) and that he had come from God^(F) and was returning to God; ⁴ so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.^{(G) 5} After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet,^(H) drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

⁶ He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”^(I)

⁸ “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”

Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

⁹ “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”

¹⁰ Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean,^(J) though not every one of you.”^{(K) 11} For he knew who was going to betray him,^(L) and that was why he said not every one was clean.

¹² When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. ¹³ “You call me ‘Teacher’^(M) and ‘Lord,’^(N) and rightly so, for that is what I am. ¹⁴ Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.^{(O) 15} I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.^{(P) 16} Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master,^(Q) nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.^(R)

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

¹⁸ “I am not referring to all of you;^(S) I know those I have chosen.^(T) But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture:^(U) ‘He who shared my bread^(V) has turned^[a](W) against me.’^[b](X)

¹⁹ “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe^(Y) that I am who I am.^{(Z) 20} Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”^(AA)

²¹ After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit^(AB) and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”^(AC)

²² His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³ One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,^(AD) was reclining next to him. ²⁴ Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”

²⁵ Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”^(AE)

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,^(AF) the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.^(AG)

So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” ²⁸ But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. ²⁹ Since Judas had charge of the money,^(AH) some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival,^(AI) or to give something to the poor.^{(AJ) 30} As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.^(AK)

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial^(AL)

³¹ When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man^(AM) is glorified^(AN) and God is glorified in him.^{(AO) 32} If God is glorified in him,^[c] God will glorify the Son in himself,^(AP) and will glorify him at once.

³³ “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.^(AQ)

³⁴ “A new command^(AR) I give you: Love one another.^(AS) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.^{(AT) 35} By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”^(AU)

³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”^(AV)

Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now,^(AW) but you will follow later.”^(AX)

³⁷ Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

³⁸ Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!^(AY)

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled.^(AZ) You believe^(BA) in God^[d];^(BB) believe also in me. ² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there^(BC) to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^(BD) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.^{(BE) 4} You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

⁵ Thomas^(BF) said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am^(BG) the way^(BH) and the truth^(BI) and the life.^(BJ) No one comes to the Father except through me.^{(BK) 7} If you really know me, you will know^[e] my Father as well.^(BL) From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

⁸ Philip^(BM) said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.^(BN) How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?^(BO) The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.^(BP) Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.^{(BQ) 12} Very truly I tell you, whoever believes^(BR) in me will do the works I have been doing,^(BS) and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And I will do whatever you ask^(BT) in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands.^{(BU) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate^(BV) to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth.^(BW) The world cannot accept him,^(BX) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[f] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans;^(BY) I will come to you.^{(BZ) 19} Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(CA) Because I live, you also will live.^{(CB) 20} On that day^(CC) you will realize that I am in my Father,^(CD) and you are in me, and I am in you.^{(CE) 21} Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(CF) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(CG) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²² Then Judas^(CH) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”^(CI)

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(CJ) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^{(CK) 24} Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.^(CL)

²⁵ “All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate,^(CM) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,^(CN) will teach you all things^(CO) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.^{(CP) 27} Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.^(CQ) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled^(CR) and do not be afraid.

²⁸ “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’^(CS) If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,^(CT) for the Father is greater than I.^{(CU) 29} I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.^{(CV) 30} I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world^(CW) is coming. He has no hold over me, ³¹ but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.^(CX)

“Come now; let us leave.

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am^(CY) the true vine,^(CZ) and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,^(DA) while every branch that does bear fruit^(DB) he prunes^[g] so that it will be even more fruitful. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.^{(DC) 4} Remain in me, as I also remain in you.^(DD) No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;^(DE) apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.^{(DF) 7} If you remain in me^(DG) and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.^{(DH) 8} This is to my Father’s glory,^(DI) that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.^(DJ)

⁹ “As the Father has loved me,^(DK) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands,^(DL) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^{(DM) 12} My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^{(DN) 13} Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^{(DO) 14} You are my friends^(DP) if you do what I command.^{(DQ) 15} I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.^{(DR) 16} You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you^(DS) so that you might go and bear fruit^(DT)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.^{(DU) 17} This is my command: Love each other.^(DV)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(DW) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(DX) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^{(DY) 20} Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[h](DZ) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(EA) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹ They will treat you this way because of my name,^(EB) for they do not know the one who sent me.^{(EC) 22} If I had not come and spoken to them,^(ED) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(EE) 23} Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(EF) they would not be guilty of sin.^(EG) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(EH) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[i](EI)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶ “When the Advocate^(EJ) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^(EK)—the Spirit of truth^(EL) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^{(EM) 27} And you also must testify,^(EN) for you have been with me from the beginning.^(EO)

16 “All this^(EP) I have told you so that you will not fall away.^{(EQ) 2} They will put you out of the synagogue;^(ER) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.^{(ES) 3} They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.^{(ET) 4} I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember^(EU) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,^{(EV) 5} but now I am going to him who sent me.^(EW) None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{(EX) 6} Rather, you are filled with grief^(EY) because I have said these things. ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate^(EZ) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.^{(FA) 8} When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ about sin,^(FB) because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness,^(FC) because I am going to the Father,^(FD) where you can see me no longer; ¹¹ and about judgment, because the prince of this world^(FE) now stands condemned.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.^{(FF) 13} But when he, the Spirit of truth,^(FG) comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^(FH) He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine.^(FI) That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

The Disciples’ Grief Will Turn to Joy

¹⁶ Jesus went on to say, “In a little while^(FJ) you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”^(FK)

¹⁷ At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’^(FL) and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”^{(FM) 18} They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

¹⁹ Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? ²⁰ Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn^(FN) while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.^{(FO) 21} A woman giving birth to a child has pain^(FP) because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. ²² So with you: Now is your time of grief,^(FQ) but I will see you again^(FR) and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.^{(FS) 23} In that day^(FT) you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.^{(FU) 24} Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive,^(FV) and your joy will be complete.^(FW)

²⁵ “Though I have been speaking figuratively,^(FX) a time is coming^(FY) when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name.^(FZ) I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. ²⁷ No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me^(GA) and have believed that I came from God.^{(GB) 28} I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”^(GC)

²⁹ Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.^{(GD) 30} Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe^(GE) that you came from God.”^(GF)

³¹ “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. ³² “A time is coming^(GG) and in fact has come when you will be scattered,^(GH) each to your own home. You will leave me all alone.^(GI) Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.^(GJ)

³³ “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.^(GK) In this world you will have trouble.^(GL) But take heart! I have overcome^(GM) the world.”

Jesus Prays to Be Glorified

17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven^(GN) and prayed:

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

Jesus Prays for All Believers