Luke 7:46
You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
In Context
45You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:2And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:
Psalms 104:15And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
Daniel 10:3I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
Micah 6:15You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
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 →