In the liturgical calendar Palm Sunday begins Holy Week, Jesus' last week before his resurrection. During holy week Jesus publicly revealed himself as King and debated with his enemies in the temple. He offered himself as a sacrifice for sin and entered the grave before rising in victory. But before dying on the cross he also washed his disciples' feet.
Because some Christians misread the account as if it sanctions a sort-of sacrament of foot-washing, we might give it too little attention. But Jesus was being deliberately provocative in order to grab the attention of his followers. This is the only "instance in either Jewish or Greco-Roman sources of a superior washing the feet of an inferior."
What is Jesus doing for his first disciples and for us in this shockingly humbling act?
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