John 13 (NET)

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John 13:1¹Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:23 1 John 4:19 John 13:34 John 13:3 John 16:28 John 18:4 Rev 1:5 1 Cor 1:8 Eph 5:25-26 John 15:9-10

John 13:2²The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray Jesus.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:13-17 Acts 5:3 John 13:26-27 John 6:70-71 Luke 22:3 Luke 22:31 2 Cor 8:16 Eph 2:3 Rev 17:17 Ezra 7:27

John 13:3³Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:35 Matt 11:27 Heb 1:2 Matt 28:18 John 17:2 John 8:42 1 Cor 15:27 Eph 1:21-22 John 16:27-28 Phil 2:9-11

John 13:4⁴he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:9 Luke 22:27 Luke 12:37 Phil 2:6-8 Luke 17:7

John 13:5⁵He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 7:44 1 Tim 5:10 Ps 51:2 Gen 18:4 Gen 19:2 1 Cor 6:11 1 Sam 25:41 2 Kgs 3:11 Acts 22:16 Eph 5:26

John 13:6⁶Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:27 Matt 3:11-14 Luke 5:8

John 13:7⁷Jesus replied, “You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 12:8 John 12:16 John 14:26 Jas 5:7-11 John 13:10-12 Dan 12:12 Hab 2:1-3 John 13:36 Jer 32:24-25 Jer 32:43

John 13:8⁸Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 22:16 Ezek 36:25 Titus 3:5 Eph 5:26 Heb 10:22 1 Cor 6:11 Rev 7:14 Col 2:18 Col 2:23 Heb 9:22-23

John 13:9⁹Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 51:2 Ps 51:7 1 Pet 3:21 Ps 26:6 Heb 10:22 Jer 4:14 Matt 27:24

John 13:10¹⁰Jesus replied, “The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:3 2 Cor 7:1 2 Cor 5:17 Num 19:19-21 Eph 5:26-27 Lev 17:15-16 Num 19:12-13 1 Thess 5:23 2 Cor 5:21 Eph 4:22-24

John 13:11¹¹(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:18 John 13:26 John 13:2 John 13:21 John 2:25 John 6:64-71 Matt 26:24-25 John 17:12

John 13:12¹²So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:7 Ezek 24:24 John 13:4 Ezek 24:19 Matt 13:51

John 13:13¹³You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 6:46 1 Cor 12:3 Phil 2:11 John 11:28 Rom 14:8-9 1 Cor 8:6 Jas 2:19 Matt 23:8-10 Phil 3:8 Luke 10:28

John 13:14¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:5 Acts 20:35 Rom 12:16 Gal 5:13 Luke 22:26-27 1 Pet 4:1 Mark 10:43-45 Heb 5:8-9 Matt 20:26-28 1 Cor 8:13

John 13:15¹⁵For I have given you an example —you should do just as I have done for you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 2:6 Matt 11:29 1 Pet 2:21 1 Pet 3:17-18 Eph 5:2 Rom 15:5

John 13:16¹⁶I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:20 Luke 6:40 Matt 10:24-25 John 3:5 John 3:3

John 13:17¹⁷If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 11:28 Jas 4:17 Jas 1:25 Matt 7:24-25 Exod 40:16 Ezek 36:27 Luke 12:47-48 Ps 19:11 Rev 22:14 Heb 11:7-8

John 13:18¹⁸“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 41:9 Matt 26:23 John 17:12 Mark 14:20 John 13:26 John 13:10-11 John 6:70 John 15:19 Heb 4:13 John 15:16

John 13:19¹⁹I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 43:10 John 14:29 John 16:4 Rev 1:17-18 Isa 48:5 John 8:23-24 Matt 24:25 John 8:58 Mal 3:1 Matt 11:3

John 13:20²⁰I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 10:16 Luke 9:48 Mark 9:37 Matt 25:40 Matt 10:40-42 Gal 4:14 John 12:44-48 Col 2:6 1 Thess 4:8

John 13:21²¹When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified, “I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:18 Matt 26:21 Mark 14:18 2 Cor 2:12-13 Acts 1:16-17 John 12:27 Luke 22:21-22 John 11:33 John 13:2 Matt 26:38

John 13:22²²The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 22:23 Mark 14:19 Matt 26:22 Gen 42:1

John 13:23²³One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 19:26 John 20:2 John 21:20 John 21:7 Rev 1:16-18 2 Sam 12:3 John 13:25 John 21:24 John 1:18 John 11:3

John 13:24²⁴So Simon Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 13:16 Acts 12:17 Acts 21:40 Luke 1:22 Luke 5:7

John 13:25²⁵Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 21:20 Esth 7:5 Gen 44:4-12

John 13:26²⁶Jesus replied, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish.” Then he dipped the piece of bread in the dish and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 26:23 John 13:30 Luke 22:21 Mark 14:19-20 John 6:70-71 John 12:4-6

John 13:27²⁷And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 22:3 John 13:2 Acts 5:3 Eccl 9:3 Jas 1:13-15 Matt 12:45 Prov 1:16 Dan 2:15 Jer 2:24-25 1 Kgs 18:27

John 13:28²⁸(Now none of those present at the table understood why Jesus said this to Judas.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 13:29²⁹Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 20:34-35 Eph 4:28 John 12:5-6 Gal 2:10 John 13:1

John 13:30³⁰Judas took the piece of bread and went out immediately. (Now it was night.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:7 Prov 4:16 Rom 3:15 Job 24:13-15 Luke 22:53

John 13:31³¹When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:11 John 14:13 1 Pet 1:21 John 16:14 John 7:39 Acts 2:36 Acts 3:13 Eph 1:5-8 Eph 3:10 Heb 5:5-9

John 13:32³²If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 22:1 Rev 22:3 Isa 53:10-12 John 12:23 John 17:1 John 17:4-6 1 Pet 3:22 Heb 1:2-3 John 17:21-24 Rev 21:22-23

John 13:33³³Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:33-34 1 John 2:1 John 16:16-22 John 8:21-24 John 12:35-36 John 14:19 John 14:4-6 1 John 4:4 1 John 5:21 Gal 4:19

John 13:34³⁴“I give you a new commandment—to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 5:2 Lev 19:18 John 15:17 1 Pet 1:22 1 John 3:23 Gal 6:2 1 Cor 12:26-27 1 John 4:21-5:1 Jas 2:8 Col 3:12-13

John 13:35³⁵Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples—if you have love for one another.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 4:20-21 1 John 2:10 1 John 3:10-14 John 17:21 1 John 2:5 Acts 4:32-35 Gen 13:7-8 Acts 5:12-14

John 13:36³⁶Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:14 John 21:21-22 John 13:33 John 14:2 John 21:18-19 John 14:4-5 John 16:17

John 13:37³⁷Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 20:24 Acts 21:13 John 21:15 Mark 14:27-31 Luke 22:31-34 Matt 26:31-35

John 13:38³⁸Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 22:34 Matt 26:34 Mark 14:30 Prov 16:18 Luke 22:56-62 Matt 26:69-75

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