John 13–17

CHAPTER 13

The Lord’s Supper

¹Now 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.

CHAPTER 14

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

¹“^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.”

^5aThomas ^*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.”

^8aPhilip ^*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 ^1aAdvocate, that He may be with you forever;

^17athe 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“^1aAfter 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.”

^22aJudas (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.

CHAPTER 15

I Am the True Vine

¹“^aI am the true vine, and My Father is the ^bvine-grower.

²“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ¹cleans it so that it may bear more fruit.

³“^aYou are already ¹clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

⁴“^aAbide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so 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, he ^abears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

⁶“If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ^athrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

⁷“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ^aask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

⁸“My ^aFather is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^1bprove to be My disciples.

⁹“Just as ^athe Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

¹⁰“^aIf you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as ^bI have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹“^aThese things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^bjoy may be complete.

Jesus’ Commandment Is Love

¹²“This is ^aMy commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

¹³“^aGreater love has no one than this, that one ^blay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴“You are My ^afriends if ^byou do what I command you.

¹⁵“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 ^aall things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

¹⁶“^aYou did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed…