<p>11:2 <i>And it was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick</i>- The anointing of John 12 is after this; so presumably it is the anointing by the &quot;woman in the city who was a sinner&quot; of Luke 7 which is in view. And that woman was Mary, a repentant prostitute. The fact the Lord and His men often stayed at her family home in a poor out of town dormitory settlement &quot;Bethany&quot; = 'house of the poor' would surely have elicited all manner of gossip. A very interesting picture of Mary emerges when the pieces of the Biblical jigsaw are put together.</p>