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At the Last Supper, Jesus ties a towel around himself and washes the disciples' feet. Which Gospel tells it?

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The answer

John, and John alone. In John 13 Jesus gets up from supper, takes off his outer robe, ties a towel around himself, pours water into a basin and washes the disciples' feet. Matthew, Mark and Luke tell the supper without the foot washing, and John tells the supper without the bread and the cup.

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Why it’s interesting

Washing someone's feet was typically a slave's job, or a job a student did for his teacher. The towel was what a slave wore. Peter's first words when Jesus reaches him are "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

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