Feet were different in Jesus’ time. Calloused, broken and covered in waste. Only the lowest were asked to wash other people’s feet. But Jesus, the Son of God, got down and willingly did it. Jesus loves in the most unexpected ways, and He’s asking you to love too, even when it costs you everything.
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him... (Read John 13:1-17)
—John 13:1-5, NIV