⁴¹ And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

¹⁰ Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?

¹⁰ And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.

⁴ Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

¹³ Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

³³ The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

³ Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

⁴ Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.

⁵ Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.