The Life of Jesus

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they do not see with their eyes, understand with their hearts, and do t’shuvah, so that I could heal them.”

(Yesha‘yahu said these things because he saw the Sh’khinah of Yeshua and spoke about him.)

Nevertheless, many of the leaders did trust in him; but because of the P’rushim they did not say so openly, out of fear of being banned from the synagogue;

for they loved praise from other people more than praise from God.

Yeshua declared publicly, “Those who put their trust in me are trusting not merely in me, but in the One who sent me.

Also those who see me see the One who sent me.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who trusts in me might not remain in the dark.

If anyone hears what I am saying and does not observe it, I don’t judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Those who reject me and don’t accept what I say have a judge — the word which I have spoken will judge them on the Last Day.

For I have not spoken on my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has given me a command, namely, what to say and how to say it.

And I know that his command is eternal life. So what I say is simply what the Father has told me to say.”

It was just before the festival of Pesach, and Yeshua knew that the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. Having loved his own people in the world, he loved them to the end.

They were at supper, and the Adversary had already put the desire to betray him into the heart of Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on from K’riot.

Yeshua was aware that the Father had put everything in his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.

So he rose from the table, removed his outer garments and wrapped a towel around his waist.

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the talmidim and wipe them off with the towel wrapped around him.

He came to Shim‘on Kefa, who said to him, “Lord! You are washing my feet?”

Yeshua answered him, “You don’t understand yet what I am doing, but in time you will understand.”

“No!” said Kefa, “You will never wash my feet!” Yeshua answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no share with me.”

“Lord,” Shim‘on Kefa replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and head too!”

Yeshua said to him, “A man who has had a bath doesn’t need to wash, except his feet — his body is already clean. And you people are clean, but not all of you.”

(He knew who was betraying him; this is why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”)

After he had washed their feet, taken back his clothes and returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?

You call me ‘Rabbi’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because I am.

Now if I, the Lord and Rabbi, have washed your feet, you also should wash each other’s feet.