6. B. perfume (Matt. 26:7-13). John's Gospel says the woman was Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. A banquet guest might be honored by anointing, but Mary's perfume was a costly gift, worth a year's wages. Only servants attended a guest's feet, but Mary humbled herself, unbinding her hair—something that respectable women didn't do in public.
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