“My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.”
You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet — anointing the head with oil was a hospitality courtesy for honored guests; Simon omitted it. She poured expensive perfume — not on the head (which would have been more conventional) but on the feet, communicating the ultimate reversal of hierarchy: the most expensive gift given in the most humble form.
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