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37 There was a sinful woman in that town. She knew that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house. So the woman brought some expensive perfume in an alabaster jar. 38 She stood at Jesus’ feet, crying. Then she began to wash his feet with her tears. She dried his feet with her hair. She kissed his feet many times and rubbed them with the perfume.

39 When the Pharisee who asked Jesus to come to his house saw this, he thought to himself, “If this man were a prophet,[a] he would know that the woman who is touching him is a sinner!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 7:39 prophet A prophet often knows things that are hidden to other people.

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