John Gill's Exposition on John 11:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, etc.] Not the woman in (<420737>Luke 7:37), as some have thought, whose name is not mentioned, and which history is not related by John at all: but Mary in (<431203>John 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 “<420737>Luke 7:37”), (see Gill on “<431203>John 12:3”). Whose brother Lazarus was sick; this is observed, to show how well they were all acquainted with Christ, and affected to him.

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