The Meaning of the Example

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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?

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

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

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For I have set you an example, so that you may do as I have done to you.

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Yes, indeed! I tell you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is an emissary greater than the one who sent him.

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If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

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“I’m not talking to all of you — I know which ones I have chosen. But the words of the Tanakh must be fulfilled that say, ‘The one eating my bread has turned against me.’

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I’m telling you now, before it happens; so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM [who I say I am].

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Yes, indeed! I tell you that a person who receives someone I send receives me, and that anyone who receives me receives the One who sent me.”

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