13 (A)You call me (B)Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, (C)you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, (D)that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, (E)a servant[a] is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, (F)blessed are you if you do them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. John 13:16 Or bondservant, or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)

13 “You call me ‘Teacher’(A) and ‘Lord,’(B) and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.(C) 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.(D) 16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master,(E) nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.(F)

Read full chapter