Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John by R F Weymouth
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013:014 If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet,
it is also your duty to wash one another's feet. 013:015 For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you. 013:016 In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him. 013:017 If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly. 013:018 I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, `He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' 013:019 From this time forward I tell you things before they happen, in order that when they do happen you may believe that I am He. 013:020 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him who sent me." 013:021 After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me." 013:022 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know to which of them He was referring. 013:023 There was at table one of His disciples--the one Jesus loved-- reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom. 013:024 Making a sign therefore to him, Simon Peter said, "Tell us to whom he is referring." 013:025 So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked, "Master, who is it?" 013:026 "It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, |
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