on cushions on the floor. Evidently no servant was in attendance, so that there had been no one to wash their feet before the meal began. Nor was any of the apostles humble enough to undertake this menial task. It was to their intense embarrassment, therefore, that during supper Jesus put on a slave’s apron, poured water into a basin and went around washing their feet, thus doing what none of them had been willing to do. He then proceeded to tell them how authentic love always expresses itself in