Jesus washing feet in underwear or naked?

by John_Mann 14 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • John_Mann
    John_Mann

    John 13:4,5

    got up from the evening meal and laid aside his outer garments. And taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist.

    After that he put water into a basin and started to wash the feet of the disciples and to dry them off with the towel that was wrapped around him.

    The WT "translates" himatia as outer garments but some other translations says just clothes.

    If he were wearing just an underwear, why wrap a towel around the waist? Usually one just wrap a towel around the waist when naked.

    Even if he were in underwear it's a very strange situation...

  • kurtbethel
    kurtbethel

    And David found his love for Jonathan to be greater than his love for women.

    So what's your point?

  • krejames
    krejames

    Mark 14:51,52: "However, a certain young man wearing only a fine linen garment over his naked body began to follow him nearby, and they tried to seize him, 52 but he left his linen garment behind and got away naked."

    The Bible says he was naked. Does that mean he was naked? of course not, silly! he was obviously still wearing clothes because to be naked would have been just wrong!

  • zebagain
    zebagain

    his suit was the dry-cleaners...

  • Tiktaalik
    Tiktaalik

    They had towels 2000 years ago?

    It all smacks of homoeroticism to me. Naked guys washing others' feet; wearing towels, bathing each other in rivers.

  • Londo111
    Londo111

    Our culture is so far removed from this. Nudity didn't mean the same to them as it does to us.

  • Bobcat
    Bobcat

    It was the outer clothing Jesus took off. The towel was for drying the disciples feet. Jesus was (perhaps intentionally) making himself look like a servant to press his point about humble service.

  • BU2B
    BU2B

    Yeah and in the NWT the word "naked" is always footnoted to read, "or lightly clad" Even when the bible specifies "with buttocks stripped" it does not mean what it says. Prudes.

  • Brainfloss
    Brainfloss

    hi·jack ˈhīˌjak/ verb past tense: hijacked; past participle: hijacked

    1. 1. illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes. "three armed men hijacked a white van"
      synonyms: commandeer, seize, take over, take control;
      possibly
  • Brainfloss
    Brainfloss

    oops wrong thread

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