The Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this. He said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him—what kind of woman she is. She’s a sinner!”
In that town there was a woman who had lived a sinful life. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
Live in a way that shows you’ve turned away from your sins, and don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham even from these stones.
She stood behind Jesus and cried at his feet, then she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume on them.