The Life of Jesus

`He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'

these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;

and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;

I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me--in the darkness may not remain;

and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I--I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world--to the end he loved them.

And supper being come, the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him--into his hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,

doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself;

afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.

He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou--dost thou wash my feet?'

Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'

Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet--to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;'

Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.'

Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

for he knew him who is delivering him up; because of this he said, `Ye are not all clean.'

When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you?

ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;

if then I did wash your feet--the Lord and the Teacher--ye also ought to wash one another's feet.