Luke 7:44
And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.
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In Context
43Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right.
45You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.
Cross References
Genesis 18:4Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:
Genesis 43:24\43:25\And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there.
1 Samuel 25:41And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.
James 2:6But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
Matthew Henry on Luke 7:37-50
Christ in the House of the Pharisee. 36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now… Read the whole commentary →