John 13:14

14. Ought to wash one another’s feet The pious Moravians, even at the present day, practice the ceremony of washing each other’s feet. But there is little reason to suppose that this slight language of our Lord is used to institute a perpetual sacrament of this kind. The words bear no comparison with the full and solemn precision with which the Lord’s Supper is instituted as a modified continuation of the ancient Passover. Nor is there any indication in the New Testament writings, nor in the earliest primitive documents, that such a sacrament was either established by the apostles or practised by the primitive Christians. Our Lord here performed the humblest of menial services as a lesson that they, renouncing strife for superiority, should condescend to the lowest offices for each other’s good.

In every act of humble love toward a fellow-Christian or a fellow-being, we perform the reality of which this feet washing is the symbol, and we really obey the command to wash one another’s feet.