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

^{5 Ref} 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.

^{6 Ref} So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?

^{7 Ref} And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.

^{8 Ref} Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.

^{9 Ref} Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.

^{10 Ref} Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

^{11 Ref} (He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.)

^{12 Ref} Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you?

^{13 Ref} You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.

^{14 Ref} If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

^{15 Ref} I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.

^{16 Ref} Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

^{17 Ref} If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.