The sinful woman
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
sinner washing his feet · that sinful woman · the sinful woman · the sinner
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
An unnamed penitent woman who anoints Christ's feet and receives forgiveness for her faith.
But the argument of that sinful woman will tend hither:
De Pudicitia
Unnamed woman who washed Jesus's feet, cited as example of mercy shown to sinners.
But if the Lord did by deeds too publish anything of the kind on behalf of sinners — as when he permitted even the touch of his own body to the sinful woman washing his feet with tears and wiping them with her hair and inaugurating his burial with ointment;