Holy Thursday
Washing of the Feet
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Now before the feast
of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to
depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who
were in the world, he loved them to the end. And during supper,
when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the
Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come
from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his
garments, and girded himself with a towel. Then 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. He came to Simon
Peter; and Peter said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" Jesus
answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now, but
afterward you will understand." Peter said to him, "You shall
never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you,
you have no part in me." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my
feet only but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "He
who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but
he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of
you." For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said,
"You are not all clean." When 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?
You call me Teacher
and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord
and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one
another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also
should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a
servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent
greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed
are you if you do them. I am not speaking of you all; I know
whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled,
`He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.' I tell you
this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place
you may believe that I am he. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
receives any one whom I send receives me; and he who receives me
receives him who sent me."
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