John 13-17

New King James Version

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

13 Now ^(A)before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that ^(B)His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He ^(C)loved them to the end.

² And ^[a]supper being ended, ^(D)the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, ³ Jesus, knowing ^(E)that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He ^(F)had come from God and ^(G)was going to God, ^4 (H)rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. ⁵ After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. ⁶ Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, ^(I)“Lord, are You washing my feet?”

⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you ^(J)do not understand now, ^(K)but you will know after this.”

⁸ Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, ^(L)“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹ Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ^(M)you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For ^(N)He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

¹² So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you ^[b]know what I have done to you? ^13 (O)You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. ^14 (P)If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, ^(Q)you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For ^(R)I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. ^16 (S)Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. ^17 (T)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Jesus Identifies His Betrayer^(U)

¹⁸ “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the ^(V)Scripture may be fulfilled, ^(W)‘He who eats ^[c]bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ^19 (X)Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He. ^20 (Y)Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

^21 (Z)When Jesus had said these things, ^(AA)He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ^(AB)one of you will betray Me.” ²² Then the disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom He spoke.

²³ Now ^(AC)there was ^[d]leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. ²⁴ Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.

²⁵ Then, leaning ^[e]back on Jesus’ breast, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.” And having dipped the bread, He gave it to ^(AD)Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ^27 (AE)Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” ²⁸ But no one at the table knew for what reason He said this to him. ²⁹ For some thought, because ^(AF)Judas had the money box, that Jesus had said to him, “Buy those things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰ Having received the piece of bread, he then went out immediately. And it was night.

The New Commandment

³¹ So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, ^(AG)“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and ^(AH)God is glorified in Him. ³² If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and ^(AI)glorify Him immediately. ³³ Little children, I shall be with you a ^(AJ)little while longer. You will seek Me; ^(AK)and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you. ^34 (AL)A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ^35 (AM)By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

³⁶ Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?”

Jesus answered him, “Where I ^(AN)am going you cannot follow Me now, but ^(AO)you shall follow Me afterward.”

³⁷ Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will ^(AP)lay down my life for Your sake.”

³⁸ Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not ^(AQ)crow till you have denied Me three times.

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 “Let ^(AR)not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many ^[f]mansions; if it were not so, ^[g]I would have told you. ^(AS)I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^(AT)I will come again and receive you to Myself; that ^(AU)where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

^5 (AV)Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am ^(AW)the way, ^(AX)the truth, and ^(AY)the life. ^(AZ)No one comes to the Father ^(BA)except through Me.

The Father Revealed

^7 (BB)“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? ^(BC)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(BD)I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you ^(BE)I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, ^(BF)or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

The Answered Prayer

^12 (BG)“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ^13 (BH)And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be ^(BI)glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ^[h]ask anything in My name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises Another Helper

^15 (BJ)“If you love Me, ^[i]keep My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and ^(BK)He will give you another ^[j]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— ^17 (BL)the Spirit of truth, ^(BM)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you ^(BN)and will be in you. ^18 (BO)I will not leave you orphans; ^(BP)I will come to you.

Indwelling of the Father and the Son

¹⁹ “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but ^(BQ)you will see Me. ^(BR)Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ At that day you will know that ^(BS)I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ^21 (BT)He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and ^[k]manifest Myself to him.”

^22 (BU)Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, ^(BV)and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and ^(BW)the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

The Gift of His Peace

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶ But ^(BX)the ^[l]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will ^(BY)send in My name, ^(BZ)He will teach you all things, and bring to your ^(CA)remembrance all things that I said to you. ^27 (CB)Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸ You have heard Me ^(CC)say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because ^[m]I said, ^(CD)‘I am going to the Father,’ for ^(CE)My Father is greater than I.

²⁹ “And ^(CF)now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, ^(CG)for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has ^(CH)nothing in Me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, and ^(CI)as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

The True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ^2 (CJ)Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He ^[n]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear ^(CK)more fruit. ^3 (CL)You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ^4 (CM)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much ^(CN)fruit; for without Me you can do ^(CO)nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, ^(CP)he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words ^(CQ)abide in you, ^(CR)you^[o] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ^8 (CS)By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; ^(CT)so you will be My disciples.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(CU)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (CV)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^(CW)that your joy may be full. ^12 (CX)This is My ^(CY)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (CZ)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14 (DA)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^(DB)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (DC)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(DD)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(DE)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

^18 (DF)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19 (DG)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^(DH)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ^(DI)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^(DJ)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But ^(DK)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ^22 (DL)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, ^(DM)but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (DN)He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them ^(DO)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^(DP)seen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵ But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ^(DQ)‘They hated Me without a cause.’

The Coming Rejection

^26 (DR)“But when the ^[p]Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(DS)He will testify of Me. ²⁷ And ^(DT)you also will bear witness, because ^(DU)you have been with Me from the beginning.

Jesus Warns and Comforts His Disciples

16 “These things I have spoken to you, that you ^(DV)should not be made to stumble. ^2 (DW)They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming ^(DX)that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. ³ And ^(DY)these things they will do ^[q]to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. ⁴ But these things I have told you, that when ^[r]the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.

“And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

⁵ “But now I ^(DZ)go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, ^(EA)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but ^(EB)if I depart, I will send Him to you. ⁸ And when He has ^(EC)come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ^9 (ED)of sin, because they do not believe in Me; ^10 (EE)of righteousness, ^(EF)because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; ^11 (EG)of judgment, because ^(EH)the ruler of this world is judged.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, ^(EI)but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ However, when He, ^(EJ)the Spirit of truth, has come, ^(EK)He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. ^14 (EL)He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. ^15 (EM)All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He ^[s]will take of Mine and declare it to you.

Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

¹⁶ “A ^(EN)little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, ^(EO)because I go to the Father.”

¹⁷ Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” ¹⁸ They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not ^[t]know what He is saying.”

¹⁹ Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? ²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and ^(EP)lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into ^(EQ)joy. ^21 (ER)A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and ^(ES)your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

²³ “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. ^(ET)Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. ²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, ^(EU)that your joy may be ^(EV)full.

Jesus Christ Has Overcome the World

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you ^(EW)plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; ^27 (EX)for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and ^(EY)have believed that I came forth from God. ^28 (EZ)I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! ³⁰ Now we are sure that ^(FA)You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this ^(FB)we believe that You came forth from God.”

³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ^32 (FC)Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, ^(FD)each to his ^[u]own, and will leave Me alone. And ^(FE)yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³ These things I have spoken to you, that ^(FF)in Me you may have peace. ^(FG)In the world you ^[v]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, ^(FH)I have overcome the world.”

Jesus Prays for Himself

17 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, ^(FI)the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, ^2 (FJ)as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He ^[w]should give eternal life to as many ^(FK)as You have given Him. ³ And ^(FL)this is eternal life, that they may know You, ^(FM)the only true God, and Jesus Christ ^(FN)whom You have sent. ^4 (FO)I have glorified You on the earth. ^(FP)I have finished the work ^(FQ)which You have given Me to do. ⁵ And now, O Father, glorify Me together ^[x]with Yourself, with the glory ^(FR)which I had with You before the world was.

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

^6 (FS)“I have ^[y]manifested Your name to the men ^(FT)whom You have given Me out of the world. ^(FU)They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. ⁷ Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. ⁸ For I have given to them the words ^(FV)which You have given Me; and they have received them, ^(FW)and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that ^(FX)You sent Me.

⁹ “I pray for them. ^(FY)I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. ¹⁰ And all Mine are Yours, and ^(FZ)Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. ^11 (GA)Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, ^(GB)keep^[z] through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one ^(GC)as We are. ¹² While I was with them ^[aa]in the world, ^(GD)I kept them in ^[ab]Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and ^(GE)none of them is ^[ac]lost ^(GF)except the son of ^[ad]perdition, ^(GG)that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. ¹⁴ I have given them Your word; ^(GH)and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, ^(GI)just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but ^(GJ)that You should keep them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ^17 (GK)Sanctify^[ae] them by Your truth. ^(GL)Your word is truth. ^18 (GM)As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And ^(GN)for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Jesus Prays for All Believers

²⁰ “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who ^[af]will believe in Me through their word; ^21 (GO)that they all may be one, as ^(GP)You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. ²² And the ^(GQ)glory which You gave Me I have given them, ^(GR)that they may be one just as We are one: ²³ I in them, and You in Me; ^(GS)that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

^24 (GT)“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; ^(GU)for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. ²⁵ O righteous Father! ^(GV)The world has not known You, but ^(GW)I have known You; and ^(GX)these have known that You sent Me. ^26 (GY)And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love ^(GZ)with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”