Then Peter and John got some bread and wine and other things, and made the supper ready; and they went back and told Jesus (who was a little way in the country) that supper was ready. So Jesus and all his disciples came to the house in the evening; they went up stairs, and they all sat down. Jesus loved John better than all the rest, and John sat next to Jesus. After they had been a little while at supper, Jesus got up and took a towel, and tied it round his waist; and he took a jug and poured water into a basin, and he began to wash his disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel round his waist. But when he came to Peter, Peter said, You shall never wash my feet. Peter thought it was too kind of Jesus to wash his feet, as if he were a servant; but Jesus was not proud, but loved to be kind to his disciples. Then Jesus said to Peter, If I wash you not, you cannot be mine; but I have made you clean already. Jesus had made Peter’s heart clean. Then Peter was glad that Jesus should wash his feet. All the disciples had clean hearts, except Judas, and his heart was full of wickedness; Satan was in it. Yet Jesus washed Judas’ feet. He was kind even to wicked Judas, who hated him. When Jesus had washed all the disciples’ feet he sat down again, and began to talk to them. He said, Do you know what I have done to you? I have washed your feet, though I am your Lord and Master. I wish to teach you to be as kind to each other as I have been to you. When the sad hour was almost come, That Jesus must depart, He gathered in an upper room Those dearest to his heart. Ah! great was their astonishment When, rising from his seat, Upon the floor he lowly bent To wash his servants’ feet. Beside the board again he sat, And thus expressed his mind: “If I, your Lord, upon you wait, O should not you be kind? “O! let the love that I have shown By you remembered be; And by _your_ love let it be known That you belong to me.” LESSON XXXIII. THE LAST SUPPER—PART II. JOHN, xiii. 21-30. YOU know the wicked thing that Judas meant to do. Jesus knew that he would bring the wicked people to take him and kill him. Jesus had been very kind to Judas, and Jesus was sorry that he was so wicked. As Jesus was sitting at supper, and all the twelve disciples sitting round, he said, One of you will give me to the wicked men to be killed! one of you, my disciples. All the disciples were very sorry, and Peter said, Is it I? and John said, Is it I? and each of them said, Is it I? but Jesus did not tell them which. Now John was leaning his head on Jesus’ bosom, and Peter whispered to John and said, Do ask the Lord which it is that will show the wicked people where he is? So John whispered and said, Which is it? And Jesus said, The one that dips the bread in the sop with me.