THE MEANING OF FOOT WASHING

12 When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer clothing, he reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are speaking rightly, since that is what I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.b 15 For I have given you an example,c that you also should do just as I have done for you.

16 “Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master,A,d and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.e

18 “I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen.f But the Scriptureg must be fulfilled:h The one who eats my breadB has raised his heel against me.C,i 19 I am telling you now before it happens,j so that when it does happen you will believek that I am he.l 20 Truly I tell you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receivesm me receives him who sent me.”