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John 13:7
And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.
John 13:7 · Bible in Basic English
John 13:7 in other translations
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
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In context
4 Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.
5 Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.
6 So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?
7 And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.
8 Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.
9 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.
10 Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.
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