Study Desk

He and His followers were having supper. Satan had put the thought into the heart of Judas Iscariot of handing Jesus over to the leaders of the country.

Jesus knew the Father had put everything into His hands. He knew He had come from God and was going back to God.

Jesus got up from the supper and took off His coat. He picked up a cloth and put it around Him.

Then He put water into a wash pan and began to wash the feet of His followers. He dried their feet with the cloth He had put around Himself.

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has washed his body needs only to wash his feet. Then he is clean all over. You are all clean except one."

Jesus washed their feet and put on His coat. Then He sat down again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

For sure, I tell you, a workman who is owned by someone is not greater than his owner. One who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

Simon Peter got this follower to look his way. He wanted him to ask Jesus which one He was speaking of.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in Me? What I say to you, I do not say by My own power. The Father Who lives in Me does His work through Me.

For sure, I tell you, whoever puts his trust in Me can do the things I am doing. He will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father.

"If anyone does not get his life from Me, he is cut off like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire and they are burned.

If you obey My teaching, you will live in My love. In this way, I have obeyed My Father's teaching and live in His love.

No one can have greater love than to give his life for his friends.

I do not call you servants that I own anymore. A servant does not know what his owner is doing. I call you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from My Father.

Remember I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his owner.' If they made it very hard for Me, they will make it very hard for you also. If they obeyed My teachings, they will obey your teachings also.

The Holy Spirit is coming. He will lead you into all truth. He will not speak His Own words. He will speak what He hears. He will tell you of things to come.

Some of His followers said to each other, "What is He trying to tell us when He says, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and in a little while you will see Me again,' and ‘Because I go to My Father' ?"

His followers said to Him, "Now You are talking in plain words. You are not using picture-stories.

The time is coming, yes, it is already here when you will be going your own way. Everyone will go to his own house and leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with Me.

When Jesus had said these things, He went with His followers across the small river Kidron. He and His followers went to a garden there.