John 13:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

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  • Luke 7:44 : 44 Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon,“Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
  • Gen 18:4 : 4 Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.
  • Gen 19:2 : 2 He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.”
  • 2 Kgs 3:11 : 11 Jehoshaphat asked,“Is there no prophet of the LORD here that we might seek the LORD’s direction?” One of the servants of the king of Israel answered,“Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.”
  • 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress– as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works.
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
  • 1 John 5:6 : 6 Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 So I said to him,“My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me,“These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
  • 2 Kgs 5:10-13 : 10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him,“Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed.” 11 Naaman went away angry. He said,“Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease. 12 The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry. 13 His servants approached and said to him,“O master, if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, you would have been willing to do it. It seems you should be happy that he simply said,“Wash and you will be healed.”
  • Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
  • Ezek 36:25 : 25 I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 The Refinement of Judah“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
  • Luke 7:38 : 38 As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.
  • Exod 29:4 : 4 “You are to present Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the tent of meeting. You are to wash them with water
  • Lev 14:8 : 8 The Seven Days of Purification“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.
  • 1 Sam 25:41 : 41 She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said,“Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
  • John 13:8 : 8 Peter said to him,“You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied,“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
  • John 13:10 : 10 Jesus replied,“The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you.”
  • John 13:12-14 : 12 So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them,“Do you understand what I have done for you? 13 You call me‘Teacher’ and‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet.
  • John 19:34 : 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.
  • Acts 22:16 : 16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 13:1-4
    4 verses
    90%

    1 Washing the Disciples’ Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

    2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray Jesus.

    3 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

    4 he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself.

  • John 13:6-15
    10 verses
    87%

    6 Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him,“Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

    7 Jesus replied,“You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”

    8 Peter said to him,“You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied,“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

    9 Simon Peter said to him,“Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”

    10 Jesus replied,“The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you.”

    11 (For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said,“Not every one of you is clean.”)

    12 So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them,“Do you understand what I have done for you?

    13 You call me‘Teacher’ and‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am.

    14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet.

    15 For I have given you an example– you should do just as I have done for you.

  • Luke 7:44-46
    3 verses
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    44 Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon,“Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

    45 You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

    46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

  • 38 As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

  • 72%

    25 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him,“Lord, who is it?”

    26 Jesus replied,“It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish.” Then he dipped the piece of bread in the dish and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son.

    27 And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him,“What you are about to do, do quickly.”

  • 27 For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

  • 72%

    13 He sent two of his disciples and told them,“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

    14 Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house,‘The Teacher says,“Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

  • 22 Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • 20 He said to them,“It is one of the twelve, one who dips his hand with me into the bowl.

  • 26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

  • 13 The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

  • 30 Judas took the piece of bread and went out immediately.(Now it was night.)

  • 3 Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair.(Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

  • 3 The Beloved to Her Lover:“I have already taken off my robe– must I put it on again? I have already washed my feet– must I soil them again?”

  • 10 He said to them,“Listen, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters,

  • 14 The Lord’s Supper Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table and the apostles joined him.

  • 23 So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

  • 21 When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified,“I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me.”

  • 45 When Judas arrived, he went up to Jesus immediately and said,“Rabbi!” and kissed him.

  • 23 And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

  • 7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.

  • 7 He proclaimed,“One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

  • 1 Betrayal and Arrest When he had said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. There was an orchard there, and he and his disciples went into it.

  • 23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

  • 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

  • 5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

  • 11 The greatest among you will be your servant.

  • 35 After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them,“If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

  • 23 He answered,“The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.

  • 7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter,“It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment(for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

  • 20 Peter and the Disciple Jesus Loved Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them.(This was the disciple who had leaned back against Jesus’ chest at the meal and asked,“Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?”)

  • 8 Won’t the master instead say to him,‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

  • 2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”