Why Doesn't AI Want to Show Me Jesus Washing the Feet of His Disciples?
OK so this doesn’t count as a real post. I’m just a little intrigued here. In the Gospel of John (the weird gospel) Jesus washes the feet of his disciples, including Judas. This has been mined to great effect, particularly by those who suggest that in fact Judas was the greatest disciple because he was the one who was willing to do what it took to provoke the sacrifice that completed the second covenant. Anyway, I was playing with an AI image generator, trying to get an image of Jesus washing someone’s feet. I had always thought that he had washed the feet of lepers specifically or poor people generally, but I can only find biblical evidence of him washing the disciples. In any event, the passage from John has long been seen as particularly evocative, and correspondingly has been a very common image in the history of Christian art, as a simple Google search will show:
I don’t have Midjourney but I’m sure some of you do, so feel free to try it out on there and report back with your findings.
