John 13:12b-14 says “He said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.'” After washing the disciples’ feet at the Last Passover dinner, Jesus asks if they understood the significance of it. Of course they didn’t. They called him “Teacher and Lord,” which was appropriate. As a teacher he proved his lordship. But Jesus reverses the order: because he is Lord he not only taught them, he had honored them by humbling himself and washing their feet. What teacher honors his students like this? What Lord elevates his followers like this? That is what Jesus means by washing our feet and we each others feet. Let’s act more like him doing so today.