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John
Ch. 13–15
Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet
1It was now the day before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. He had always loved those in the world who were his own, and he loved them to the very end.
2Jesus and his disciples were at supper. The Devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, the thought of betraying Jesus.
3Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God.
4So he rose from the table, took off his outer garment, and tied a towel around his waist.
5Then he poured some water into a washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.
6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Are you going to wash my feet, Lord?”
7Jesus answered him, “You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later.”
8Peter declared, “Never at any time will you wash my feet!” “If I do not wash your feet,” Jesus answered, “you will no longer be my disciple.”
9Simon Peter answered, “Lord, do not wash only my feet, then! Wash my hands and head, too!”
10Jesus said, “Those who have taken a bath are completely clean and do not have to wash themselves, except for their feet. All of you are clean—all except one.”
11(Jesus already knew who was going to betray him; that is why he said, “All of you, except one, are clean.”)
12After Jesus had washed their feet, he put his outer garment back on and returned to his place at the table. “Do you understand what I have just done to you?” he asked.
13“You call me Teacher and Lord, and it is right that you do so, because that is what I am.
14I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You, then, should wash one another's feet.
15I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.
16I am telling you the truth: no slaves are greater than their master, and no messengers are greater than the one who sent them.
17Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!
18“I am not talking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the scripture must come true that says, ‘The man who shared my food turned against me.’
19I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that ‘I Am Who I Am.’
20I am telling you the truth: whoever receives anyone I send receives me also; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.”
Jesus Predicts His Betrayal
21After Jesus had said this, he was deeply troubled and declared openly, “I am telling you the truth: one of you is going to betray me.”
22The disciples looked at one another, completely puzzled about whom he meant.
23One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was sitting next to Jesus.
24Simon Peter motioned to him and said, “Ask him whom he is talking about.”
25So that disciple moved closer to Jesus' side and asked, “Who is it, Lord?”
26Jesus answered, “I will dip some bread in the sauce and give it to him; he is the man.” So he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
27As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “Hurry and do what you must!”
28None of the others at the table understood why Jesus said this to him.
29Since Judas was in charge of the money bag, some of the disciples thought that Jesus had told him to go and buy what they needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor.
30Judas accepted the bread and went out at once. It was night.
The New Commandment
31After Judas had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man's glory is revealed; now God's glory is revealed through him.
32And if God's glory is revealed through him, then God will reveal the glory of the Son of Man in himself, and he will do so at once.
33My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me; but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, ‘You cannot go where I am going.’
34And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”
Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial
36“Where are you going, Lord?” Simon Peter asked him. “You cannot follow me now where I am going,” answered Jesus; “but later you will follow me.”
37“Lord, why can't I follow you now?” asked Peter. “I am ready to die for you!”
38Jesus answered, “Are you really ready to die for me? I am telling you the truth: before the rooster crows you will say three times that you do not know me.
John 14
Jesus the Way to the Father
1“Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them. “Believe in God and believe also in me.
2There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.
3And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.
4You know the way that leads to the place where I am going.”
5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?”
6Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.
7Now that you have known me,” he said to them, “you will know my Father also, and from now on you do know him and you have seen him.”
8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father; that is all we need.”
9Jesus answered, “For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you,” Jesus said to his disciples, “do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work.
11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If not, believe because of the things I do.
12I am telling you the truth: those who believe in me will do what I do—yes, they will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father.
13And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son.
14If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
15“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
16I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.
17He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.
18“When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.
19In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.
20When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me, just as I am in you.
21“Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them.”
22Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “Lord, how can it be that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
23Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.
24Those who do not love me do not obey my teaching. And the teaching you have heard is not mine, but comes from the Father, who sent me.
25“I have told you this while I am still with you.
26The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you.
27“Peace is what I leave with you; it is my own peace that I give you. I do not give it as the world does. Do not be worried and upset; do not be afraid.
28You heard me say to you, ‘I am leaving, but I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father; for he is greater than I.
29I have told you this now before it all happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.
30I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
31but the world must know that I love the Father; that is why I do everything as he commands me. “Come, let us go from this place.
John 15
Jesus the Real Vine
1“I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.
3You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.
4Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5“I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.
6Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned.
7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it.
8My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit; and in this way you become my disciples.
9I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
11“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.
13The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.
14And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
15I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.
16You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.
17This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
The World's Hatred
18“If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.
19If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.
20Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
21But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.
22They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
23Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
24They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.
25This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’
26“The Helper will come—the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God and who comes from the Father. I will send him to you from the Father, and he will speak about me.
27And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.
Proverbs
Ch. 6
12Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies.
13They wink and make gestures to deceive you,
14all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere.
15Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded.
16-19There are seven things that the Lord hates and cannot tolerate: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people, a mind that thinks up wicked plans, feet that hurry off to do evil, a witness who tells one lie after another, and someone who stirs up trouble among friends.