You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

But he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son?

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.”