Mary of Bethany kneels at Jesus’ feet. John says she anointed them with costly spikenard and wiped them with her hair, “and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.”
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Masters/James Tissot/Mary Magdalene at the Feet of Jesus
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
