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John Gill
Mine head with oil thou didst not anoint,.... No not with common oil, so usually done at feasts, see Psalms 23:5 but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment; even "with ointment" דבסמא, "of spices", as the Syriac version renders it. There is, throughout the whole account, an opposition between the conduct of Simon, and this woman: he gave him no common water to wash his feet with, she shed...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. Christ confirming the doctrine he had preached in the former chapter, with two glorious miracles—the curing of one at a distance, and that was the centurion's servant (ver. 1-10), and the raising of one to life that was dead, the widow's son at Nain, ver. 11-18. II. Christ confirming the faith of John who was now in prison, and of some of his disciples, by sending him...
Charles H. Spurgeon
My head with oil thou didst not anoint: Another usual Eastern custom with guests whom the host intended to honour. Luk_7:46. But this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Anointed them, not with ordinary olive oil, but with precious costly ointment.
Charles H. Spurgeon
But this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. You said in your heart that, if I had been a prophet, I should have known who and what manner of woman this was. I do know, and I am telling you. If you had given me a kiss, you would only have coldly kissed my brow, but she has found it in her heart to honour me by kissing my feet. Since I came in, she has not ceased to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
My head with oil thou didst not anoint; This, too, was the usual custom.
Charles H. Spurgeon
But this woman, hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
Charles H. Spurgeon
My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. “That is a common custom in the case of a guest of honourable estate, but thou didst not observe it; yet this woman has poured upon my feet the most precious form of perfume that could be procured anywhere.”