Luke 7:46

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.

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  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.
  • Eccl 9:8 : 8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
  • Matt 6:17 : 17 But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;
  • Amos 6:6 : 6 Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
  • Ruth 3:3 : 3 So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

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  • Luke 7:43-45
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    43 Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right.

    44 And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.

    45 You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.

  • Luke 7:37-40
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    37 And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

    38 And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.

    39 Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.

    40 And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on.

  • Luke 7:47-48
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    47 And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

    48 And he said to her, You have forgiveness for your sins.

  • Matt 26:6-13
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    6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

    7 There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.

    8 But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

    9 For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.

    10 But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.

    11 For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

    12 For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

    13 Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

  • 3 Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.

  • Mark 14:3-9
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    3 And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

    4 But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?

    5 We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.

    6 But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.

    7 The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.

    8 She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

    9 And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

  • 2 (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.)

  • 7 Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

  • John 13:5-6
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    5 Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.

    6 So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?

  • 5 Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

  • John 13:8-10
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    8 Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.

    9 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.

    10 Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

  • John 8:10-11
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    10 Then Jesus got up, and seeing nobody but the woman, he said to her, Where are the men who said things against you? did no one give a decision against you?

    11 And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against you: go, and never do wrong again.]

  • 41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

  • 12 Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you?

  • 14 If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

  • 50 And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.

  • 3 I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?

  • 17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

  • 9 Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.

  • 9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

  • 17 But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

  • 16 And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord;

  • 18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

  • 7 Then take the oil and put it on his head.

  • 7 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

  • 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: