Luke 7:38

Weeping, the woman wets Jesus' feet with her tears, wipes them with her hair, kisses them, and anoints them with ointment. Her humble, lavish devotion expresses heartfelt repentance and love.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
• Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
• Gen 18:4Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
• Ps 6:6–8I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
• Eccl 9:8Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.
• Luke 7:44–46And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
• Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
• John 13:4–5So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.
• 2 Cor 7:10–11Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
• Ps 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
• Jer 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
• Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
• Ezra 10:1While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
• Isa 57:9You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.
• Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• Jas 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
• Judg 2:4–5When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
• Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
• Luke 6:21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
• Song 1:3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
• Luke 22:62And he went outside and wept bitterly.

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