"For who [is] greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? [Is] it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.

rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself.

Then He came to Simon Peter. And [Peter] said to Him, "Lord, are You washing my feet?"

Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."

Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash [his] feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

"If I then, [your] Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

"Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross.

though He was a Son, [yet] He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

Then He is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom';

None [of them] can by any means redeem [his] brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him --

But He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [He was] bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace [was] upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put [Him] to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see [His] seed, He shall prolong [His] days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

He shall see the labor of His soul, [and] be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

" Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

"And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it [shall be] with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

"As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

"nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish."

and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree"),

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself [His] own special people, zealous for good works.

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, [like] silver or gold, from your aimless conduct [received] by tradition from your fathers,

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

"For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

And He said to them, "This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.

But the free gift [is] not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.