36And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. …
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. …
And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) …
And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-49)When and where this passage of story happened does not appear; this evangelist does not observe order of time in his narrative so much as the other evangelists do; but it comes in here, upon occasion of Christ’s being reproached as a friend to publicans and sinners , to show that it was only for their good, and to bring them to repentance, that he conversed with them; and that those whom he admitt…
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