(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) The fact here referred to, though not recorded by our Evangelist until John 12:3, etc., was so well known in the teaching of all the churches, according to our Lord's prediction (see the note at Mark 14:9), that it is here alluded to by anticipation, as the most natural way of identifying her; and Mary is first named, though the younger, as the more distinguished of the two. She "anointed THE LORD," says the Evangelist-led doubtless to the use of this term here, as He was about to exhibit Him illustriously as the Lord of Life.