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I knew that that the time has come to leave this world to go to the Father. As I came from God, so I was on my way back to God.
I knew that the Father had put me in complete charge of everything. Having loved my dear students, I continued to love them right to the end. So I got up from the supper table, set aside my shirt, and put on an apron. Then I poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the students, drying them with my apron. Then, I got to Simon Rock.
ROCK: Master, you wash my feet?
Jesus: You don't understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear later.
ROCK: You're not going to wash my feet, ever!
Jesus: Only if I wash you, you can be part of what I'm doing.
RCOK: Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!
Jesus: (smiling) Don’t be silly, Rock. If you've had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now.
After Jesus had finished washing their feet, Jesus took his shirt, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table.
Jesus: Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as your boss. Well, that is what I am. So if I washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet. I've laid down a pattern for you. Do what I've done to you.
As little as you understand what I'm telling you, try it out and live a blessed life.
I know that the Bible will be fulfilled: “The one who ate bread at my table betrayed me.” I'm only telling you all this ahead of time so that when it happens, you will believe that I am who I am.
Anyway, more importantly make sure to remember this: “Receiving someone I send is the same as receiving me, just as receiving me is the same as receiving the One who sent me.”
Jesus (V.O.) : After I said these things, I sigh deeply, and then I told them why.
JESUS : One of you is going to betray me.
Jesus (V.O.) : The students looked around at one another, wondering who on earth Jesus was talking about. John was reclining against me, his head on my shoulder. ROCK motioned to him to ask who I might be talking about.
JOHN: Doc, who?
Jesus: The one to whom I give this bread after I've dipped it.
Narrator: Then JESUS dipped the bread and gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. As soon as the bread was in his hand, Satan entered him.
Jesus: What you must do, do it right way.
JESUS (V.O.): No one else around the supper table knew why I said this to him. Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer, I was telling him to buy what they needed, or that he should give something to the poor.
Narrator: Judas, with the piece of bread, leaves. It is night. Jesus watches him leaving.
Jesus: I am now glorified. My Father is glorified within me. As my Father is seen in me, so the glory of the Father shines. In glorifying the Son, the Father is glorified.
My children… I am with you for only a little longer. You are going to look for me. But just as I told everyone, where I go, you are not able to come.
My advice for you is: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my students. Let them see the love you have for each other.
SOMON ROCK: Doc, just where are you going?
Jesus: You can't now follow me where I'm going. You will follow later.
ROCK: Doc, why can't I follow now? I'll lay down my life for you!
Jesus: (silence) The truth is that before the rooster crows, you'll deny me three times. (Silence) You will follow me later…
