John 13:18–38

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

¹⁸“I am not referring to all of you;ⁿ I know those I have chosen.^o But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture:^p ‘He who shared my bread^q has turned^ar against me.’^bs

¹⁹“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe^t that I am who I am.^{u 20}Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”^v

²¹After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit^w and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”^x

²²His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,^y was reclining next to him. ²⁴Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”

²⁵Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”^z

²⁶Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,^a the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.^b

So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” ²⁸But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. ²⁹Since Judas had charge of the money,^c some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival,^d or to give something to the poor.^{e 30}As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.^f

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

13:37,38pp—Mt 26:33–35; Mk 14:29–31; Lk 22:33,34

³¹When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man^g is glorified^h and God is glorified in him.^{i 32}If God is glorified in him,^c God will glorify the Son in himself,^j and will glorify him at once.

³³“My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.^k

³⁴“A new command^l I give you: Love one another.^m As I have loved you, so you must love one another.^{n 35}By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”^o

³⁶Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”^p

Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now,^q but you will follow later.”^r

³⁷Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

³⁸Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!^s