John 13:12-20 - The Meaning Of Footwashing

¹² So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them. ¹³ "Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am. ¹⁴ If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet, ¹⁵ for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. ¹⁸ I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁹ "From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am. ²⁰ In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me."