Over the next few days we will be journeying through the events of Holy Week ... imagining that current restrictions applied ...

It was time to prepare to celebrate the Passover Festival. The usual gatherings of extended family were out this year, due to the restrictions. The disciples were puzzled as to where they could share the meal but somehow Jesus had made an arrangement. He told some of the disciples to go into the city where they would see a man carrying a jar of water (usually women's work). They were to follow him and ask the owner of the house he goes to where the rooms is and to make preparations there. They found everything as he had told them.

Now normally a servant would wash the guests feet on arrival but there couldn't be any servants this year, only the "household" of the disciples. The disciples were surprised when Jesus himself took a towel and the bowl of water and indicated that he would wash their feet. Peter protested, “you will never ever wash my feet!” but Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.” Then he said an odd thing: now you are all clean, except one.

You can read this story in the Gospel of John here.

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