Daily Text and Bible Reading: Friday, November 15 [Press play below]

13.1 Now because he knew before the festival of the Passover that his hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, Jesus, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.
13.2 The evening meal was going on, and the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him.
13.3 So Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he came from God and was going to God,
13.4 got up from the evening meal and laid aside his outer garments. And taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist.
13.5 After that he put water into a basin and started to wash the feet of the disciples and to dry them off with the towel that was wrapped around him.
13.6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him: “Lord, are you washing my feet?”
13.7 Jesus answered him: “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these things.”
13.8 Peter said to him: “You will certainly never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him: “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.”
13.9 Simon Peter said to him: “Lord, wash not only my feet but also my hands and my head.”
13.10 Jesus said to him: “Whoever has bathed does not need to have more than his feet washed, but is completely clean. And you men are clean, but not all of you.”
13.11 For he knew the man who was betraying him. This is why he said: “Not all of you are clean.”
13.12 When, now, he had washed their feet and had put his outer garments on, he again reclined at the table and said to them: “Do you understand what I have done to you?
13.13 You address me as ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are correct, for I am such.
13.14 Therefore, if I, the Lord and Teacher, washed your feet, you also should wash the feet of one another.
13.15 For I set the pattern for you, that just as I did to you, you should also do.
13.16 Most truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
13.17 If you know these things, happy you are if you do them.
13.18 I am not talking about all of you; I know the ones I have chosen. But this was so that the scripture might be fulfilled: ‘The one who was eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
13.19 From this moment on, I am telling you before it occurs, so that when it does occur you may believe that I am he.
13.20 Most truly I say to you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me also, and whoever receives me receives also the One who sent me.”
13.21 After saying these things, Jesus became troubled in spirit, and he bore witness, saying: “Most truly I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
13.22 The disciples began to look at one another, being at a loss as to which one he was talking about.
13.23 One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining close to Jesus.
13.24 Therefore, Simon Peter nodded to this one and said to him: “Tell us whom he is talking about.”
13.25 So the latter leaned back on the chest of Jesus and said to him: “Lord, who is it?”
13.26 Jesus answered: “It is the one to whom I will give the piece of bread that I dip.” So after dipping the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
13.27 After Judas took the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. So Jesus said to him: “What you are doing, do it more quickly.”
13.28 However, none of those reclining at the table knew why he said this to him.
13.29 Some, in fact, were thinking that since Judas was holding the money box, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.
13.30 So after he received the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.
13.31 When, therefore, he had gone out, Jesus said: “Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in connection with him.
13.32 God himself will glorify him, and he will glorify him immediately.
13.33 Little children, I am with you a little longer. You will look for me; and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ I now say it also to you.
13.34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
13.35 By this all will know that you are my disciples—if you have love among yourselves.”
13.36 Simon Peter said to him: “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered: “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”
13.37 Peter said to him: “Lord, why is it I cannot follow you now? I will surrender my life in your behalf.”
13.38 Jesus answered: “Will you surrender your life in my behalf? Most truly I say to you, a rooster will by no means crow until you have disowned me three times.”
14.1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Exercise faith in God; exercise faith also in me.
14.2 In the house of my Father are many dwelling places. Otherwise, I would have told you, for I am going my way to prepare a place for you.
14.3 Also, if I go my way and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you home to myself, so that where I am you also may be.
14.4 And where I am going, you know the way.”
14.5 Thomas said to him: “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
14.6 Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
14.7 If you men had known me, you would have known my Father also; from this moment on you know him and have seen him.”
14.8 Philip said to him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
14.9 Jesus said to him: “Even after I have been with you men for such a long time, Philip, have you not come to know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father also. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
14.10 Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? The things I say to you I do not speak of my own originality, but the Father who remains in union with me is doing his works.
14.11 Believe me that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me; otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.
14.12 Most truly I say to you, whoever exercises faith in me will also do the works that I do; and he will do works greater than these, because I am going my way to the Father.
14.13 Also, whatever you ask in my name, I will do this, so that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son.
14.14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
14.15 “If you love me, you will observe my commandments.
14.16 And I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever,
14.17 the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither sees it nor knows it. You know it, because it remains with you and is in you.
14.18 I will not leave you bereaved. I am coming to you.
14.19 In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.
14.20 In that day you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.
14.21 Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. In turn, whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly show myself to him.”
14.22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him: “Lord, what has happened that you intend to show yourself clearly to us and not to the world?”
14.23 In answer Jesus said to him: “If anyone loves me, he will observe my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
14.24 Whoever does not love me does not observe my words. The word that you are hearing is not mine, but belongs to the Father who sent me.
14.25 “I have spoken these things to you while I am still with you.
14.26 But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things and bring back to your minds all the things I told you.
14.27 I leave you peace; I give you my peace. I do not give it to you the way that the world gives it. Do not let your hearts be troubled nor let them shrink out of fear.
14.28 You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I am.
14.29 So now I have told you before it occurs, so that you may believe when it does occur.
14.30 I will not speak with you much more, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has no hold on me.
14.31 But for the world to know that I love the Father, I am doing just as the Father has commanded me to do. Get up, let us go from here.
15.1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
15.2 He takes away every branch in me not bearing fruit, and he cleans every one bearing fruit, so that it may bear more fruit.
15.3 You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
15.4 Remain in union with me, and I will remain in union with you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in union with me.
15.5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him, this one bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing at all.
15.6 If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown out like a branch and dries up. And men gather those branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
15.7 If you remain in union with me and my sayings remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will take place for you.
15.8 My Father is glorified in this, that you keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples.
15.9 Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain in my love.
15.10 If you observe my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love.
15.11 “These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made full.
15.12 This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
15.13 No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his life in behalf of his friends.
15.14 You are my friends if you do what I am commanding you.
15.15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you all the things I have heard from my Father.
15.16 You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you to go and keep bearing fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that no matter what you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
15.17 “These things I command you, that you love one another.
15.18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
15.19 If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
15.20 Keep in mind the word I said to you: A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours.
15.21 But they will do all these things against you on account of my name, because they do not know the One who sent me.
15.22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
15.23 Whoever hates me also hates my Father.
15.24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen me and hated me as well as my Father.
15.25 But this happened in order to fulfill the word written in their Law: ‘They hated me without cause.’
15.26 When the helper comes that I will send you from the Father, the spirit of the truth, which comes from the Father, that one will bear witness about me;
15.27 and you, in turn, are to bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.