(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
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Gill's Exposition
It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment,.... Not the woman in Luk 7:37, as some have thought, whose name is not mentioned, and which history is not related by John at all: but Mary in…
Barnes' Notes
It was that Mary ... - See the Mat 26:6 note; Luk 7:36-50 notes.
Adam Clarke
It was that Mary which anointed - There is much disagreement between learned men relative to the two anointings of our Lord, and the persons who performed these acts. The various conjectures…
We have in these verses,
I. A particular account of the parties principally concerned in this story, Joh 11:1, Joh 11:2. 1. They lived at Bethany, a village nor far from Jerusalem, where Christ…
Cambridge Bible
It was that Mary which anointed This of course does not necessarily imply that the anointing had already taken place, as those who identify Mary with the -sinner" of Luk 7:37 would insist: it merely…