John 13:7-12

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

7 z Jesus answered him, "What I am doing a you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand." 8 b Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, c "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me." 9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 10 Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, d except for his feet, 1 but is completely clean. And e you 2 are clean, f but not every one of you." 11 g For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

12 When he had washed their feet and h put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, i "Do you understand what I have done to you?

  1. Cross References
    John 13:36
    Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.
  2. Cross References
    John 13:12
    When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?
    John 12:16
    His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
    John 15:15
    No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 16:22
    And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 6:11
    And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
    Ephesians 5:26
    That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
    Titus 3:5
    He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
    Hebrews 10:22
    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 18:4
    Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
  6. Cross References
    John 15:3
    Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
  7. Cross References
    John 13:18
    I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.
  8. Cross References
    John 13:2
    During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.
    John 6:64
    But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
    John 2:24 - 25
    But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
  9. Cross References
    John 13:4
    Rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.
  10. Cross References
    John 13:7
    Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.
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