Mat 26:6-7 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 6. In Bethany ] For a solution of the difficulties in this verse, about the time of the anointing, see the observations at the end of this chapter. Simon the LEPER] This was probably no more than a surname, as Simon the CANAANITE, , and Barsabas JUSTUS, , and several others. Yet it might have been some person that Christ had healed of this disease. See .

‏ Matthew 26:6-7

Verse 6. In Bethany] For a solution of the difficulties in this verse, about the time of the anointing, see the observations at the end of this chapter.

Simon the LEPER] This was probably no more than a surname, as Simon the CANAANITE, Mt 10:4, and Barsabas JUSTUS, Ac 1:23, and several others. Yet it might have been some person that Christ had healed of this disease. See Mt 11:5.

Verse 7. There came unto him a woman] There is much contention among commentators about the transaction mentioned here, and in Joh 12:3; some supposing them to be different, others to be the same. Bishop Newcome's view of the subject I have placed at the end of the chapter.

Some think that the woman mentioned here was Mary, the sister of Lazarus; others Mary Magdalene; but against the former opinion it is argued that it is not likely, had this been Mary the sister of Lazarus, that Matthew and Mark would have suppressed her name. Besides, say they, we should not confound the repast which is mentioned here, with that mentioned by John, Joh 12:3. This one was made only two days before the passover, and that one six days before: the one was made at the house of Simon the leper, the other at the house of Lazarus, Joh 12:1, 2. At this, the woman poured the oil on the head of Christ; at the other, Mary anointed Christ's feet with it. See Clarke on Mr 14:3, and See Clarke on Mt 26:75