From my heart’s perspective, one of the most beautiful stories recorded in scripture is the story of the woman in Luke 7.  We Christians are familiar with it and often read over the depth of the story. Can we pause today and look in a new way? 

Jesus is at a Pharisee’s house where he has gone to eat dinner.  The Pharisees were very religious – self-righteously so.  Jesus sits down to eat and a woman “who was a sinner” came.  Now we understand that in Bible times, women were devalued, sort of sub-important people.  So here comes a woman into a men’s gathering (picture the men’s monthly meeting at your church).  She is “an especially wicked sinner” according to the Amplified Version of the Bible. Other versions say she was “a woman of the town”; “a harlot”; “a notorious sinner; a social outcast, devoted to sin.” 

This would probably offend most of us. It certainly offended the Pharisee who concluded that Jesus must not be a prophet as he had previously thought, for if Jesus were a prophet, he’d know this woman was a slut. 

This woman brought in an expensive alabaster flask of  perfumed oil and standing BEHIND him WEEPING, she began to wash his feet with her tears, and wiped his feet with the hair of her head; she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. What a scene! 

You can be pretty sure that the oil she used was purchased by money she made as a harlot.   Read more...

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