It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment,.... Not the woman in Lu 7:37, as some have thought, whose name is not mentioned, and which history is not related by John at all: but Mary in Joh 12:3, who is both mentioned by name, and along with Lazarus her brother, and with whom all the circumstances of the affair suit; and though the fact was not yet done, yet John writing many years after it was done, and when it was well known, proleptically, and in a parenthesis, takes notice of it here:and wiped his feet with her hair; instead of a napkin, after she had anointed them with oil; See Gill on "Lu 7:37",See Gill on "Joh 12:3".
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John 11:2
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