12:48. He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
12:49. For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.
12:50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.
John Chapter 13
Christ washes his disciples' feet. The treason of Judas. The new commandment of love.
13:1. Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Before the festival day of the pasch. . .This was the fourth and last pasch of the ministry of Christ, and according to the common computation, was in the thirty-third year of our Lord: and in the year of the world 4036. Some chronologers are of opinion that our Saviour suffered in the thirty-seventh year of his age: but these different opinions on this subject are of no consequence.
13:2. And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),
13:3. Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands and that he came from God and goeth to God,
13:4. He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and, having taken a towel, girded himself.