²⁷ For which is greater, the guest who is seated at a meal or the servant who is waiting on him? is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant.

²⁸ Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

³⁷ Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.

⁷ But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

⁸ Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?

⁹ Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?

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.

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

⁷ 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 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 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.

¹⁰ 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 (He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.)

¹² 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 You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.

¹⁴ 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 I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.

¹⁶ 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.

⁹ For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

⁷ But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

⁸ And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.