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The Social-Science Commentary series presents a pioneering alternative commentary genre that offers a contextual approach to the study of the New Testament, thoroughly grounded in the original audience’s first-century cultural setting. This commentary on the Gospel of John builds on the unique format and success of the Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels and includes illustrations...

Foot washing was customary behavior on the arrival of guests in the house for a meal. ] Feasts, 2:1–12. ] Meals, 12:1–8. Since the foot washing in the scene depicted here is not upon arrival, something else is going on. This is a symbolic foot washing. The key to the scenario is the meaning of feet and hence washing the feet. While some philosophers in the Greco-Roman world thought of the human person in terms of body and soul, traditional Mediterranean persons thought in terms of what
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