The extended description of the setting of this scene points to its significance within the Gospel. Interpreters generally agree that 13:1 marks the most significant transition in the Gospel, introducing not only the scene of the footwashing but the entire second half of the Gospel. The first element of the setting to which the reader’s attention is called is its temporal setting. Two systems of time have been highlighted earlier in the narrative: the calendar of Jewish festival (2:13, 23; 4:45;