0 Who washed Jesus's feet with her tears and dried his feet with her hair?

Who washed Jesus's feet with her tears and dried his feet with her hair?


Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. John 12:1-3

An unnamed, unmarried woman who was a sinner

And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Luke 7:36-38

Or was it Mary Magdalene?

Mary Magdalene is usually said to be the one who did this, but there is nothing in any of the gospels that says that.

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