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Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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An Essential Kindness
Commentators explain that offering to wash a guest's feet was a fundamental and necessary act of hospitality in the ancient world. For travelers wearing only sandals in a hot, dusty climate, this simple gesture provided immediate physical relief, cooling the entire body and soothing tired feet. It was a practical and essential expression of care.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Wash your feet. —This is the first necessity of Oriental hospitality (Judges 19:21), not merely because the feet, prot…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet Which was very refresh…
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