Yeah, yeah... (grin)

And you have to comprehend what an enormous symbolic gesture of humility and respect for others it was for a person of higher position or status in that society to humble himself by washing someone else's feet, especially someone of lower status!

It was a very dramatic gesture on his part to make the lesson of equality, respect for others, and willingness to serve others selflessly very clear to his close followers...because their natural instinct would have been to put him up on a huge pedestal and put themselves down below that.

(This is assuming that the stories we've heard about the foot-washing are accurate, and they probably are. It was very unusual behaviour in that society...feet being seen as the dirtiest exposed part of the body among those people in that region...and throughout the East. It's still seen that way. That's why the guy in Iraq threw his shoes at George Bush as a sign of his total disrespect for Dubya.)

Jesus could hardly have picked a more dramatic way of emphasizing that no one is intrinsically above (or better than) anyone else.