The anointing of Jesus’ feet has sometimes been regarded as problematic for the notion that it was a confirmation of Jesus as the Lord’s anointed. In this paper I propose that the Christological meaning of the anointing of Jesus’ feet specifically is partly that Jesus as God’s anointed with holy Spirit is not only an elevated king, but also a servant who will lay down his life. Furthermore I suggest that the anointing of his feet represents an anointing with holy Spirit of simple believers in line with the notion of a new covenant in which not only the greatest, but also the least, would receive the Spirit. In the foot washing scene Jesus is described as a humble servant, one of the lowly of the people. He was anointed and empowered not only in order to rule as an Israelite king, but also to be trampled and humiliated as one of the oppressed ones. The complete messianic task included both the head (lord-/kingship) and, more unexpectedly, the feet (servantship). In the empty tomb one angel sits where Jesus’ head had been and one where his feet had been – a symbol for the inclusion of his entire body. Jesus would also pass on the Spirit he had received to believers. When all received the anointing (2 John 2:20, 27; a probable allusion to Jer 31:34) the hierarchy between teachers and the common people would be relativized. The emphasis on being “in Jesus,” e.g. as the branches of the vine (an analogy for God’s people), combined with the notion of his body being the temple of God, the place where his people gather, makes it likely that the anointing of Jesus’ feet also was meant to represent an anointing of the simple and lowly among God’s people with holy Spirit.