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context: a visible anointing, in accordance with the form handed down to the churches". Anointing was particularly important among the Gnostics. Many early apocryphal and Gnostic texts state that John the Baptist's baptism by water was incomplete and that anointment with oil is a necessary part of the baptismal process. The Gospel of Philip claims that chrism is superior to baptism, for it is from the word "chrism" that we have been called "Christians", certainly not from the word "baptism". And it is from the "chrism" that the "Christ" has his name. For the Father anointed the Son, and the Son </s> church in I Timothy perhaps in reference to piety, submission and/or humility. There are several names for this practice: "maundy", "foot washing", "washing the saints' feet", "pedilavium", and "mandatum". Christian denominations that observe foot washing do so on the basis of the authoritative example and command of Jesus as found in (NKJV): Jesus demonstrates the custom of the time when he comments on the lack of hospitality in one Pharisees home by not providing water to wash his feet in Luke 7:44: The rite of foot washing finds its roots in scripture. Even after the death of the apostles or </s> by yourselves, and cleanse your feet, even with water, pure water, whether in heat or in cold, and bear testimony of it unto your Father, and return not again unto that man. And in whatsoever village or city ye enter, do likewise. The first recorded practice of shaking the dust from the feet was by Smith's brother Samuel H. Smith, who performed the act on June 30, 1830, a few days or weeks before Smith's first revelation on the subject. After Smith's revelations, the practice became fairly common. Below is a table with some of the known instances of Latter
question: who washed the feet of the twelve apostles