Mary Martha?

Does anyone truly realize what happened when she washed Jesus's feet with her hair? What I am asking I guess is was that customery or was it more? I believe it to be both, For a woman to take her head covering off and then to wash a man's feet with her hair was incredibly intimate. Does this just awe anyone on how much love there was for Jesus. And yet with good old Judas there, how much confusion there was also.

Mary Martha?

There is also something else that I found out just recently. He bathed His feet with her tears. Do you know what she did? Back then, they use to save their tears in a bottle. Every time they cried, they would collect them and put them into this bottle and it would be the most precious thing they could ever give to anyone. She took this bottle and broke it over His feet. The highest honor ever bestowed on to Jesus was performed by a woman.

Mary Martha?

I'd be interested in seeing your source for that Schneb, because every translation I've seen translates the word "muron" as ointment, fragrant oil, or perfume. The word for tears, bakah, was not used here. Report It

Mary Martha?

Washing the feet of one's guests was considered part of good hospitality.

http://www.scripture2scripture.com/QandA...

Any act of hospitality is an act of humility. "Let brotherly love continue. Don't neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it." (Heb 13:1-2, Holman Translation)

Women's hair was considered very alluring and sexually attractive. It is mainly for that reason that married women were later required to cover their hair, as a symbol that they were no longer available. Other means of achieving the same symbolic effect were for married women to shave their heads and/or to wear wigs. And some single women may have also engaged in these practices as a symbol of humility or chastity.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/m...

It would therefore be impossible for Martha and Mary to have washed Jesus' feet with their hair and it not have some sexual symbolism. However, the sexuality of the act is placed in the greater context of hospitality and humility.

"The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." (1Cor 6:13, Holman Translation)

"For it says, The two will become one flesh. But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." (1Cor 6:16-17, Holman Translation)

The sexual offer implied is therefore symbolic of spiritual union with Jesus, and a greater submission to YHVH through Him. In holding these women up as examples of proper hospitality Jesus, one should then come away thinking that the only proper way to offer Jesus hospitality is to offer yourself to Him, to unify yourself with Him.