And before the festival holiday of the Paskha, Yeshua having seen that His time came that He would transition out of this universe in the direction of the Father, having loved His own who are within the universe He loved them as far as the end. And with a seder happening, with the Slanderer already having been thrown into the heart of Y’hudah Bar-Shimon from Kerioth so that he would hand Him over, knowing that the Father gave everything to Him into His hands and that He came out from the God and was going to the God, He rose Himself from the seder, set down His clothes, and having taken a towel He wrapped it around His waist; then He tossed water into the washbasin and started to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them dry with the towel with which He wrapped His waist. He then comes to Shimon Petros; he says to Him, “Mar, are You washing my feet?” Yeshua responded and said to him, “What I’m doing you don’t know at present, yet you will know with these things.” Petros says to Him, “You will absolutely not wash my feet into the eon.” Yeshua responded to them, “If I shouldn’t wash you, you don’t have a part with Me.” Shimon Petros says to Him, “Mar, not just my feet but also my hands and head!” Yeshua says to him, “The person having been bathed doesn’t need it except for the feet to be washed, but is otherwise entirely clean; and you guys are clean, but not all. Because He knew the one handing Him over; because of this He said that, “Not all of you guys are clean.”
When He then washed their feet and took His clothes and dropped to the floor to dine again, He said to them, “Do you recognize what I have done for you? You call Me, ‘The Teacher,’ and ‘The Owner,’ and you speak beautifully, because I am. If then I, the Teacher and Owner, washed your feet, you guys are also obligated to wash one another’s feet; because I gave you an example so that just like I did for you, you guys also should do. Amen amen I tell you, a slave isn’t better than his owner, neither is an emissary better than the person having sent him. If you know these things, you are happy if you should do them. I’m not speaking about all of you. I know those whom I chose; but so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, ‘The person nibbling on My bread lifted up his heel upon Me.’ From this point on I am telling you before it happens, so that you would trust when it should happen that I Am. Amen amen I tell you, the person accepting anyone whom I would send accepts Me, and the person accepting Me accepts the One having sent Me.”
Having said these things, Yeshua’s breathing was upset and He testified and said, “Amen amen I am telling you that one of you will hand Me over.” The disciples were looking at one another at a loss about whom He was speaking. One of His disciples was reclining against the chest of Yeshua, whom was dear to Yeshua, Shimon Petros then nodded to this person to inquire who it would be about whom He is speaking. That person then having in this way fallen upon the chest of Yeshua says to Him, “Mar, who is it?” Yeshua responds, “That person is to whom I will dip the piece of bread and give it to him.” Having then dipped the piece of bread He gives it to Y’hudah Bar-Shimon from Kerioth. And with the piece of bread at that time the satan entered into that one. Yeshua then says to him, “What you are doing, do it fast.” Yet not one of those reclining at the table knew towards what He said this thing to him; because some were assuming, since Y’hudah was holding the money-box, that Yeshua says to him, “Purchase what we have need of for the festival holiday,” or so that he would give something to the destitute. Taking the piece of bread, that one went out immediately. Yet it was night.
When he then went out, Yeshua says, “Now Bar-Nasha is glorified, and the God is glorified by means of Him; if the God is glorified by means of Him, the God will also glorify Him by means of Himself, and he will immediately glorify Him. Little children, I am still with you for a little bit; you will look for Me, and just like I told the Iudaeans that, ‘Where I am going you can’t come,’ I am also telling you now. I am giving you a fresh command for you to love one another, just like I loved you for you also to love one another. With this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you should hold love among one another.”
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And with their eating, taking a loaf of bread having given thanks He broke it and gave it to them and said, “Take it, this is My body.” And taking up a cup having given thanks He gave it to them, and everyone was drinking from it. And He said to them, “This is My blood of the contract1 which is being poured out for many.” Amen I tell you people that I will no longer drink from the offspring of the vine until that day when I am drinking it in the kingdom of the God.”
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Shimon Petros says to Him, “Mar, where are you going?” Yeshua answered, “Where I’m going you can’t follow Me now, but you will follow Me afterwards.” Petros says to Him, “Mar, because of what can’t I follow You now? I would lay down My conscious self on your behalf.” Yeshua responds, “Would you lay down your conscious self on My behalf? Amen amen I tell you, the rooster will absolutely not sound until which time you would disown Me thrice.”
1The New Contract as opposed to the Contract made with the people of Yisra’el through Moshe. See Exodus 24:5-8
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