Luke 7:38

She stood behind him, and then she began weeping at his feet, and with her tears she began to wash the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and she was drying them with her hair, and she was kissing his feet and was anointing them with perfume.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

37And an isha (woman) was in the shtetl, an isha chotet (a woman of sin), and, when she had daas that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach reclines at tish in the bais of the Parush, she brought an alabaster flask of costly perfume.

39But when the Parush who had invited Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw this, he said to himself, If this one were a navi, he would have had daas who and what sort of isha is touching him, because she is an isha chotet (woman of sin).

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Cross References

Judges 2:4And it came to pass, when the Malach Hashem spoke these words unto kol Bnei Yisroel, that HaAm lifted up their voice, and wept.

Psalms 6:6For in mavet there is no remembrance of Thee; 1 in Sheol who shall give Thee thanks? 1

Psalms 51:17Adonoi, open Thou my lips; 1 and my mouth shall show forth Thy tehillah (praise). 1

Ecclesiastes 9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no shemen (ointment).

Isaiah 57:9And thou wentest to Melech; + 57:9 i.e., the pagan g-d Molech, the deity of sacrificed offspring and abortions 1 with shemen thou didst increase thy perfumes, 1 and didst send thy + 57:9 political envoys far, 1 even down unto Sheol. 1

Jeremiah 31:9Hear the Devar Hashem, O ye Goyim, 1 and preach it in the farthest shores, and say: 1 He that scattered Yisroel will gather Yisroel, 1 and He shall be shomer over Yisroel, like a Ro'eh over the Eder thereof. 1

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 →

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