John 13:13-35

13 You call me teacher and Lord, and you're right because that's what I am.
14 So if I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you must wash each other's feet.
15 I've given you an example that you should follow.
16 I can guarantee this truth: Slaves are not superior to their owners, and messengers are not superior to the people who send them.
17 If you understand all of this, you are blessed whenever you follow my example.
18 "I'm not talking about all of you. I know the people I've chosen [to be apostles]. However, I've made my choice so that Scripture will come true. It says, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'
19 I'm telling you now before it happens. Then, when it happens, you will believe that I am the one.
20 "I can guarantee this truth: Whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."
21 After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled. He declared, "I can guarantee this truth: One of you is going to betray me!"
22 The disciples began looking at each other and wondering which one of them Jesus meant.
23 One disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, was near him at the table.
24 Simon Peter motioned to that disciple and said, "Ask Jesus whom he's talking about!"
25 Leaning close to Jesus, that disciple asked, "Lord, who is it?"
26 Jesus answered, "He's the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I've dipped it in the sauce." So Jesus dipped the bread and gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.
27 Then, after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered him. So Jesus told him, "Hurry! Do what you have to do."
28 No one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.
29 Judas had the moneybag. So some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.
30 Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went outside. It was night.
31 When Judas was gone, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and because of him God is glorified.
32 If God is glorified because of the Son of Man, God will glorify the Son of Man because of himself, and he will glorify the Son of Man at once."
33 Jesus said, "Dear children, I will still be with you for a little while. I'm telling you what I told the Jews. You will look for me, but you can't go where I'm going.
34 "I'm giving you a new commandment: Love each other in the same way that I have loved you.
35 Everyone will know that you are my disciples because of your love for each other."

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