“And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.”
As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them — the extravagant action is simultaneously overwhelming and tender: weeping, wetting his feet with tears, wiping with hair, kissing, pouring perfume. The hair used to wipe the feet communicates the reversal of the normal social hierarchy — hair is a woman's glory (1 Corinthians 11:15); she uses it for the most humbling possible service.
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