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So he rose from the table, removed his outer garments and wrapped a towel around his waist.
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Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the talmidim and wipe them off with the towel wrapped around him.
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He came to Shim`on Kefa, who said to him, "Lord! You are washing my feet?"
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Yeshua answered him, "You don't understand yet what I am doing, but in time you will understand."
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"No!" said Kefa, "You will never wash my feet!" Yeshua answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no share with me."
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"Lord," Shim`on Kefa replied, "not only my feet, but my hands and head too!"
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Yeshua said to him, "A man who has had a bath doesn't need to wash, except his feet -- his body is already clean. And you people are clean, but not all of you."
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(He knew who was betraying him; this is why he said, "Not all of you are clean.")
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After he had washed their feet, taken back his clothes and returned to the table, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?
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You call me `Rabbi' and `Lord,' and you are right, because I am.
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Now if I, the Lord and Rabbi, have washed your feet, you also should wash each other's feet.