New English Translation

John 13:15-25 New English Translation (NET)

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

16. I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

17. If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

18. “What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

19. I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

20. I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

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.”

22. The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

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

24. So Simon Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to.

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