It’s a thing he does in the bible. It’s an act of service. It’s a menial task that he willingly does to show that everyone should help one another even if it’s only in the most basic of things.
They lived in an arid region and used sandals, at the end of the day their feet would be very dusty.
The disciples at that point still expected Jesus to be a political king to free the Jews from the Roman Empire by force; Jesus did the slave job of washing feet to show them that in His upside-down “kingdom”, the king is slave to all, and likewise how His followers should act.
What’s up with feet? Why does he keep washing feet? Is it a fetish?
It’s a thing he does in the bible. It’s an act of service. It’s a menial task that he willingly does to show that everyone should help one another even if it’s only in the most basic of things.
They lived in an arid region and used sandals, at the end of the day their feet would be very dusty.
The disciples at that point still expected Jesus to be a political king to free the Jews from the Roman Empire by force; Jesus did the slave job of washing feet to show them that in His upside-down “kingdom”, the king is slave to all, and likewise how His followers should act.