逾越節以前、耶穌知道自己離世歸父的時候到了．他既然愛世間屬自己的人、就愛他們到底。
喫晚飯的時候、（魔鬼已將賣耶穌的意思、放在西門的兒子加略人猶大心裡） 耶穌知道父已將萬有交在他手裡、且知道自己是從 神出來的、又要歸到 神那裡去、 就離席站起來脫了衣服、拿一條手巾束腰。 隨後把水倒在盆裡、就洗門徒的腳、並用自己所束的手巾擦乾。
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.
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. 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, he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself. 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.
约翰福音John 13:1-5 NET