6 Bible Verses about Anointing, Social Custom

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Luke 7:36-39

And one of the Pharisees was asking Him to eat with him; and, having entered into the Pharisee's house, He reclined at table. And, behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and, learning that He was reclining at table in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster cruse of perfume; and standing behind at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and wiped them off with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume.read more.
But, seeing it, the Pharisee who invited Him, spake in himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman this is that is touching Him, because she is a sinner."

John 12:3

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

Mark 16:1

And, the sabbath having past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that, coming, they might anoint Him.

Matthew 26:6-12

Now, when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came to Him a woman having an alabaster cruse of very precious ointment, and poured it down upon His head, while reclining at table. And the disciples, seeing it, were much displeased, saying, "To what purpose is this waste?read more.
For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor!" But Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for she wrought a good work for Me; for the poor ye always have with you; but Me ye have not always. For she, in pouring this ointment upon My body, did it with reference to My burial.

John 19:38-40

And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. He came, therefore, and took away His body. And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to Him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of Jews is to bury.

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