John 13:18-20

Expanded Bible

¹⁸ “I am not talking about all of you. I know those I have chosen. But this is to ·bring about what the Scripture said [^Lfulfill the Scripture]: ·‘The man who ate at my table has turned against me.’ [^L‘The one who ate bread with me lifted his heel against me’; Ps. 41:9; ^Ceating with someone showed an intimate relationship, and lifting one’s heel was an act of betrayal.] ¹⁹ I am telling you this now before it happens so that when it happens, you will believe that ·I am he [^LI am; ^Cthis may be an allusion to God’s (Yahweh’s) self identification as “I AM” in Ex. 3:14, or to God’s repeated claim that “I am he” throughout Is. 40—55; see John 8:24, 28, 58]. ²⁰ ·I tell you the truth [^LTruly, truly, I say to you], whoever ·accepts [receives] anyone I send also ·accepts [receives] me. And whoever ·accepts [receives] me also ·accepts [receives] the One who sent me [Matt. 10:40].”