Luke 7:46

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

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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 from the time I came in she did not stop kissing my feet.

47Therefore I say to you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven—for she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:2So Joab sent word to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought to him. He said to her, “Please pretend you are a mourner and put on mourning clothes. Please do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

Psalms 104:15He makes wine to make man happy, 1 oil to make his face shine, 1 and food to sustain his life. 1

Daniel 10:3I ate no delicacies, I ate no meat, I drank no wine, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the completion of three entire weeks.

Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; 1 you will tread the olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; 1 you will press grapes but drink no wine. 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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