John 13:5–14

⁵Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. ⁶He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” ⁷Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.” ⁸Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.” ⁹Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” ¹⁰Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet,^c but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.” ¹¹For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.”

¹²When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.