11. Sciebat enim quisnam esset 11. For he knew who he was qui traderet eum: propterea that would betray him; dixit: Non estis mundi omnes. therefore he said: You are not all clean. 12. Postquam ergo lavit pedes 12. Then after he had washed eorum, et accepit vestimenta their feet, and taken his sua: cum recubuisset iterum, garments, being sat down dixit eis: Scitis quid fecerim again, he said to them: Know vobis? you what I have done to you? 13. Vos vocatis me, Magister 13. You call me Master, and et Domine: et benedicitis: sum Lord: and you say well, for so etenim. I am. 14. Si ergo ego lavi pedes 14. If then I, being _your_ vestros, Dominus et Magister: Lord and Master, have washed et vos debetis alter alterius your feet; you also ought to lavare pedes. wash one another’s feet. 15. Exemplum enim dedi vobis, 15. For I have given you an ut quemadmodum ego feci vobis, example, that as I have done ita et vos faciatis. to you, so you do also. 16. Amen, amen dico vobis: Non 16. Amen, amen, I say to you: est servus maior domino suo: The servant is not greater neque apostolus maior est eo than his lord: neither is the qui misit illum. apostle greater than he that sent him. 12‐16. Having concluded the washing of the feet, and _again reclined_, Jesus points out to the Apostles the moral significance of what He had done. If He, whom they rightly called Lord and Master condescended to wash their feet, how much more ought they to wash the feet of one another, and perform towards one another similar acts of humility and mutual charity? It was that they might reflect in their own lives this spirit of humility and charity that He had set them the example; and though such humble offices of charity might at first sight seem unworthy of them, or beneath them, yet a servant is not greater than his master; and whither Christ had stooped they too should be prepared to stoop. 17. Si haec scitis, beati 17. If you know these things, eritis si feceritis ea. you shall be blessed if you do them. 17. In this verse, He promises them happiness here and hereafter, if they continue to fulfil towards one another such offices of humility and mutual charity. 18. Non de omnibus vobis dico: 18. I speak not of you all: I ego scio quos elegerim: sed ut know whom I have chosen: but adimpleatur scriptura: Qui that the scripture may be manducat mecum panem, levabit fulfilled, _He that eateth contra me calcaneum suum. bread with me, shall lift up his heel against me_.