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come as a light into the world so that whoever believes in me should not continue in darkness. And if any one hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him. the world but to save it.

For I did not come to judge

He who rejects me and

does not accept what I say has one who is judging him. What I have said will judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority. For the Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to talk about it. I know his commandment is life eternal. So what I talk about I talk about it just as the Father has said to me."

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III.

Before the Passover, when Jesus knew his time had come to go out of this world to the Father, he had loved his own who were in the world and he loved them to the end.

They were at supper.

The devil had already put it into the heart of Judah Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, that he came out from God and was going to God. So rising from supper and laying aside his clothes he took a towel and tied it round himself. He poured water into the bason and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel which was tied round him.

"Lord, do you intend to wash my feet?" said Simon Peter when he came to him.

"What I am now doing you do not now know. But you will learn later on."

"You shall never wash my feet."

"If I do not wash you, you have no part with me."

"Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."

"He who has taken a bath needs only to wash his

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feet and he is entirely clean. And you are clean. But not all.”

For he knew his betrayer. So he said: "You are not all clean." So after he had washed their feet and again taken his clothes he sat down.

"Do you understand what I have done to you?” he said.

"You call me Teacher and Lord.

And

you say well. For so I am. If I, then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash each other's feet. For I have given you an example to do as I have done to you. Most truly I tell you, The slave is not greater than his master, nor is he who has been sent

greater than he who sent him.

But

If you know this happy are you if you do it. I am not speaking about you all. I know whom I have chosen. I have done this so that the scripture may be fulfilled :

He, who is eating bread with me,

Lifted up his heel against me.

From this moment I am telling you before it happens so that when it has happened you may believe I am he. Most truly I tell you:

He who receives whomever I send, receives me.

He who receives me, receives him who sent me."

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2.

When Jesus had said this he was troubled in spirit.

"Most truly I tell you," he said, "One of you will betray me."

The disciples kept looking at each other in doubt of whom he was speaking.

Now there was at table reclining on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples whom he loved. So Simon Peter beckoned to him:

"Tell us who it is about whom he is speaking," he said.

"Lord, who is it?" he therefore said to Jesus leaning back as he was on his breast.

"It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread after dipping it."

So when he had dipped the piece of bread he gave it to Judah Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the piece of bread had been thus given to him, Satan went into him.

"What you are intending to do, do quickly," said Jesus.

Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. For some thought because Judah had the bag Jesus said: "Buy what we need for the feast," or "to give something to the poor."

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So when he had received the piece of bread Judah at once went out.

It was night.

3.

"Now is the Son of man honored," Jesus said after Judah had gone out, "and God is honored in him. And God will honor him in himself, and will at once honor him.

with you a little while.

Little children, I am still You will seek me, and as

I told the Jews, Where I am going you cannot

come, so now I tell you. mandment: Love each

I give you a new comother. Love each other

just as I have loved you. By this will everybody come to know that you are my disciples,-by the love you have for each other."

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "where are you going?"

"Where I am going you cannot follow me now. But you shall follow me later on."

"Lord, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake."

"Will you lay down your life for my sake? Most truly I tell you, The cock will not crow before you have denied me three times."