1 En voor die fees van die pasga het Jesus, omdat Hy wis dat sy uur gekom het dat Hy uit hierdie wêreld sou oorgaan na die Vader, en omdat Hy sy eie mense in die wêreld liefgehad het, hulle liefgehad tot die einde toe.

2 En gedurende die maaltyd -- die duiwel het dit al in die hart van Judas Isk riot, die seun van Simon, ingegee om Hom te verraai --

3 het Jesus, omdat Hy wis dat die Vader alles in sy hande gegee het en dat Hy van God uitgegaan het en na God heengaan,

4 van die maaltyd opgestaan en sy bo-klere uitgetrek en 'n doek geneem en dit om Hom vasgemaak.

5 Daarna het Hy water in 'n bak gegooi en die voete van die dissipels begin was en afdroog met die doek wat Hy omgehad het.

6 Hy kom toe by Simon Petrus en die sê vir Hom: Here, gaan U my voete was?

7 Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: Wat Ek doen, begryp jy nou nie, maar jy sal dit hierna verstaan.

8 Petrus sê vir Hom: U sal my voete in der ewigheid nie was nie! Jesus antwoord hom: As Ek jou nie was nie, het jy geen deel aan My nie.

9 Simon Petrus sê vir Hom: Here, nie net my voete nie, maar ook die hande en die hoof.

10 Jesus sê vir hom: Hy wat gewas is, het niks anders nodig as om die voete te was nie, maar is heeltemal rein; en julle is rein, maar nie almal nie.

11 Want Hy het geweet wie Hom sou verraai. Daarom het Hy gesê: Julle is nie almal rein nie.

12 Toe Hy dan hulle voete gewas en sy bo-klere geneem het, gaan Hy weer aan tafel en sê vir hulle: Verstaan julle wat Ek aan julle gedoen het?

13 Julle noem My Meester en Here, en julle is reg, want Ek is dit.

14 As Ek dan, die Here en die Meester, julle voete gewas het, is julle ook verplig om mekaar se voete te was.

15 Want Ek het julle 'n voorbeeld gegee om, net soos Ek aan julle gedoen het, ook so te doen.

16 Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, 'n dienskneg is nie groter as sy heer nie, en 'n gesant is ook nie groter as die een wat hom gestuur het nie.

17 As julle hierdie dinge weet, salig is julle as julle dit doen.

1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

2 So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

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.

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.

17 If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.