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The event (or events – see discussion below) is reported in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 7, and John 12. [2] Matthew and Mark are very similar: Matthew 26:6–13. While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
The Wedding at Cana (Italian: Nozze di Cana, 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Wedding at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine (John 2:1–11).
Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. [1] From the Renaissance, and in Protestant art, the number of subjects increased considerably, but cycles in painting became rarer, though they remained common in prints and ...
The Gospels present two stories of Jesus being anointed by a woman: (1) three accounts of his being anointed in Bethany, only John's account identifying Mary with the anointing; and (2) one account of Jesus being anointed by a sinful woman who definitely was neither Mary (of Mary and Martha) nor Mary Magdalene. [77]
Jesus foreshadows his death and this is the last anointing, an expensive one at that, that he will receive. Mark states in Mark 1:1 that his book is "the good news of Jesus the anointed one", [13] the word Christ meaning "anointed". The woman understands Jesus' importance more than do the other people there.
On Holy Monday, events observed in the liturgy may include Jesus cursing the fig tree, the cleansing of the Temple, the authority of Jesus questioned, and the anointing of Jesus at Bethany (John 12:1–11), an event that in the Gospel of John occurred before Palm Sunday as in John 12:12–19.
Christ and the Canaanite Woman (1594-1595) by Annibale Carracci Christ and the Canaanite Woman is a 1594-1595 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci , now in the Pinacoteca Stuard in Parma . The work was mentioned by Carlo Cesare Malvasia , who, in Felsina Pittrice , called it "the famous Canaanite Woman .
unnamed woman: anointed Jesus' head none mentioned: Simon the Leper Luke 7: city/town in Galilee, probably Nain [note 1]: 49 unnamed sinful woman: cried on, anointed & hair-dried Jesus' feet none mentioned: Simon the Pharisee Luke 10: unnamed village [note 2] Mary sat at Jesus' feet listening to Jesus Martha Martha John 11–12: Bethany ...