John 13 - 14 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Lord’s Supper

13Now before the Feast of ^athe Passover, Jesus knowing that ^bHis hour had come that He would depart out of this world ^cto the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them ¹to the end. ²And during supper, ^athe devil having already put into the heart of ^bJudas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, ³Jesus, ^aknowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that ^bHe had come forth from God and was going back to God, ⁴*got up from supper, and *laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He ^atied it around Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

⁵Then He *poured water into the washbasin, and began to ^awash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel which He had tied around Himself. ⁶So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?” ⁷Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not realize now, but you will understand ^aafterwards.” ⁸Peter *said to Him, “You will never wash my feet—ever!” Jesus answered him, “^aIf I do not wash you, ^byou have no part with Me.” ⁹Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.” ¹⁰Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ^ayou are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹For ^aHe knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹²So when He had washed their feet, and ^ataken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³“You call Me ^aTeacher and ^bLord; and ¹you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴“If I then, ^athe Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵“For I gave you ^aan example that you also should do as I did to you. ¹⁶“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aa slave is not greater than his master, nor is ^bone who is sent greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷“If you know these things, you are ^ablessed if you do them. ¹⁸“^aI do not speak about all of you. I know the ones I have ^bchosen; but ^cthat the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘^dHe who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ¹⁹“From now on ^aI am telling you before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe that ^bI am He. ²⁰“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^ahe who receives anyone I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹When Jesus had said these things, He ^abecame troubled in spirit, and bore witness and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that ^bone of you will ¹betray Me.” ²²The disciples began looking at one another, ^aperplexed about whom He *spoke. ²³There was reclining on ^aJesus’ bosom one of His disciples, ^bwhom Jesus loved. ²⁴So Simon Peter *gestured to him to inquire, “Who is the one of whom He is speaking?” ²⁵He, ^aleaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, *said to Him, “Lord, who is it?” ²⁶Jesus *answered, “He is the one for whom I shall dip the piece of bread and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the piece of bread, He *took and *gave it to Judas, ^athe son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷And after the piece of bread, ^aSatan then ^bentered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” ²⁸Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. ²⁹For some were thinking, because Judas ^ahad the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of ^bfor the feast”; or else, that he should ^cgive something to the poor. ³⁰So after receiving the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And ^ait was night.

³¹Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus *said, “Now ¹is ^athe Son of Man ^bglorified, and ^cGod ²is glorified in Him; ³²¹if God is glorified in Him, ^aGod will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. ³³“^aLittle children, I am with you ^ba little while longer. ^cYou will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ ³⁴“A ^anew commandment I give to you, ^bthat you love one another, ^ceven as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵“^aBy this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

³⁶Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered, “^aWhere I go, you cannot follow Me now; but ^byou will follow later.” ³⁷Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? ^aI will lay down my life for You.” ³⁸Jesus *answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aa rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

14“^aDo not let your heart be troubled; ¹believe in God, believe also in Me. ²“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for ^aI go to prepare a place for you. ³“And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^aI will come again and receive you to Myself, that ^bwhere I am, there you may be also. ⁴“And you know the way where I am going.” ⁵^aThomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going. How do we know the way?” ⁶Jesus *said to him, “I am ^athe way, and ^bthe truth, and ^cthe life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.

Oneness with the Father

⁷“^aIf you have come to know Me, you will know My Father also; from now on you ^bknow Him, and have ^cseen Him.”

⁸^aPhilip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus *said to him, “Have I been with you all so long and have you not come to know Me, Philip? ^aHe who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰“Do you not believe that ^aI am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? ^bThe words that I say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. ¹¹“Believe Me that ^aI am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise ^bbelieve because of the works themselves. ¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and ^agreater works than these he will do because ^bI go to the Father. ¹³“^aWhatever you ask in My name, this will I do, so that ^bthe Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴“If you ask Me anything ^ain My name, I will do it.

¹⁵“^aIf you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁶“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ¹^,^aAdvocate, that He may be with you forever; ¹⁷^athe Spirit of truth, ^bwhom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; ^aI will come to you. ¹⁹“¹^,^aAfter a little while ^bthe world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; ^cbecause I live, you will live also. ²⁰“^aOn that day you will know that ^bI am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹“^aHe who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^bhe who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^cdisclose Myself to him.” ²²^aJudas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened ^bthat You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered and said to him, “^aIf anyone loves Me, he will ^bkeep My word; and ^cMy Father will love him, and We ^dwill come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ²⁴“He who does not love Me ^adoes not keep My words; and ^bthe word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. ²⁶“But the ^aAdvocate, the Holy Spirit, ^bwhom the Father will send in My name, ^cHe will teach you all things, and ^dbring to your remembrance all that I said to you. ²⁷“^aPeace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. ^bDo not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. ²⁸“^aYou heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and ^bI will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because ^cI go to the Father, for ^dthe Father is greater than I. ²⁹“And now ^aI have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰“I will not speak much more with you, for ^athe ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; ³¹but so that the world may know that I love the Father, ¹I do exactly as ^athe Father commanded Me. Get up, ^blet us go from here.