Luke 7:37

A woman known in the city as a sinner learns Jesus is dining there and brings an alabaster jar of ointment. Her approach signals deep devotion and need.

Cross-references · 17

• Mark 14:3–9And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
• Matt 26:6–13Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Luke 7:37–39And, 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,
• Matt 21:31Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
• Luke 5:30But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
• 1 Pet 4:18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
• Luke 5:32I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Luke 18:13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
• 1 Tim 1:9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
• John 12:1–8Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
• John 11:2(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
• Rom 5:8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• John 9:24Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
• Luke 19:7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
• Luke 7:34The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
• 1 Tim 1:15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
• John 9:31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

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