John 13
The Lord's Supper
<sup id="en-NASB-26632">1</sup>Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. <sup id="en-NASB-26633">2</sup>During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
<sup id="en-NASB-26634">3</sup>Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,
<sup id="en-NASB-26635">4</sup>got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.
Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet
<sup id="en-NASB-26636">5</sup>Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. <sup id="en-NASB-26637">6</sup>So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"
<sup id="en-NASB-26638">7</sup>Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter."
<sup id="en-NASB-26639">8</sup>Peter said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."
<sup id="en-NASB-26640">9</sup>Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."
<sup id="en-NASB-26641">10</sup>Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."
<sup id="en-NASB-26642">11</sup>For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, "Not all of you are clean."
<sup id="en-NASB-26643">12</sup>So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
<sup id="en-NASB-26644">13</sup>"You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.
<sup id="en-NASB-26645">14</sup>"If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
<sup id="en-NASB-26646">15</sup>"For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26647">16</sup>"Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
<sup id="en-NASB-26648">17</sup>"If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
<sup id="en-NASB-26649">18</sup>"I do not speak of all of you I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'
<sup id="en-NASB-26650">19</sup>"From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He.
<sup id="en-NASB-26651">20</sup>"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."
Jesus Predicts His Betrayal
<sup id="en-NASB-26652">21</sup>When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me." <sup id="en-NASB-26653">22</sup>The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.
<sup id="en-NASB-26654">23</sup>There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
<sup id="en-NASB-26655">24</sup>So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking."
<sup id="en-NASB-26656">25</sup>He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, said to Him, "Lord, who is it?"
<sup id="en-NASB-26657">26</sup>Jesus then answered, "That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him." So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
<sup id="en-NASB-26658">27</sup>After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
<sup id="en-NASB-26659">28</sup>Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.
<sup id="en-NASB-26660">29</sup>For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast"; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
<sup id="en-NASB-26661">30</sup>So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
<sup id="en-NASB-26662">31</sup>Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
<sup id="en-NASB-26663">32</sup>if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.
<sup id="en-NASB-26664">33</sup>"Little children, I am with you a little while longer You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
<sup id="en-NASB-26665">34</sup>"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
<sup id="en-NASB-26666">35</sup>"By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
<sup id="en-NASB-26667">36</sup>Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered, "Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later."
<sup id="en-NASB-26668">37</sup>Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You."
<sup id="en-NASB-26669">38</sup>Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.
John 15
Jesus Is the Vine--Followers Are Branches
<sup id="en-NASB-26701">1</sup>"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. <sup id="en-NASB-26702">2</sup>"Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
<sup id="en-NASB-26703">3</sup>"You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26704">4</sup>"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
<sup id="en-NASB-26705">5</sup>"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
<sup id="en-NASB-26706">6</sup>"If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.
<sup id="en-NASB-26707">7</sup>"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26708">8</sup>"My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
<sup id="en-NASB-26709">9</sup>"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
<sup id="en-NASB-26710">10</sup>"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.
<sup id="en-NASB-26711">11</sup>"These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
Disciples' Relation to Each Other
<sup id="en-NASB-26712">12</sup>"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. <sup id="en-NASB-26713">13</sup>"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
<sup id="en-NASB-26714">14</sup>"You are My friends if you do what I command you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26715">15</sup>"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26716">16</sup>"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26717">17</sup>"This I command you, that you love one another.
Disciples' Relation to the World
<sup id="en-NASB-26718">18</sup>"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. <sup id="en-NASB-26719">19</sup>"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
<sup id="en-NASB-26720">20</sup>"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master ' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
<sup id="en-NASB-26721">21</sup>"But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
<sup id="en-NASB-26722">22</sup>"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
<sup id="en-NASB-26723">23</sup>"He who hates Me hates My Father also.
<sup id="en-NASB-26724">24</sup>"If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
<sup id="en-NASB-26725">25</sup>"But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'
<sup id="en-NASB-26726">26</sup>"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,
<sup id="en-NASB-26727">27</sup>and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
</SUP><SUP>12</SUP>"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. <SUP id=en-NASB-26713>13</SUP>"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
<SUP id=en-NASB-26714>14</SUP>"You are My friends if you do what I command you.
<SUP id=en-NASB-26715>15</SUP>"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
<SUP id=en-NASB-26716>16</SUP>"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
<SUP id=en-NASB-26717>17</SUP>"This I command you, that you love one another.
Yup. One might ask Leonardo what he was thinking of.elaine said:I think it's pretty amazing how much John looks like a woman.
Railroad said:Yup. One might ask Leonardo what he was thinking of.
Oooh-kay.elaine said:If some people wouldn't wear blinders, and use other resources, they'd know what he was thinking.
Of course Leonardo didn't finish it until<small> [size=+1]<small>1498. A bit after the Last Supper. Just a bit. </small>[/size]</small>Leonardo da <small>[size=+1]<small>Vinci </small>[/size]</small>is more our contemporary than Christ's.elaine said:If some people wouldn't wear blinders, and use other resources, they'd know what he was thinking.
I believe He was laying that awesome commission on all those that are His through His second coming.Railroad said:Thanks, 2A!! What a fantastic expression of love, and at the same time, what an awesome commission being laid on their shoulders.
I do, too. I had a post about that topic today. Great stuff, 2A!2ndAmendment said:I believe He was laying that awesome commission on all those that are His through His second coming.