Lenore,
Jesus had compassion for the needy. You bring up a very important aspect of the Lord having compassion on the women. He did not subject himself to the laws of society and the scribes and the Pharisees, if those laws were contrary to God's will.
there's more:
Mary and Martha
The woman caught in adultery
The Samaritan woman at the well
The woman bent double
The woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years
Mary Magdalene
Here is quote by Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary of C.S. Lewis, and a writer in her own right. Thoughts and comments welcome.
" Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man--there had never been such another. A prophet and a teacher who never nagged at them, who never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as 'The women, God help us!' or 'The ladies, God bless them!'; who took their questions and arguments seriously, who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no ax to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unselfconscious.
"There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words of Jesus that there was anything 'funny' about woman's nature.
"But we might easily deduce it from His contemporaries, and from His prophets before Him, and from His Church to this day."
What do YOU think?
Marcia
Marcia: When you read Luke 7 :36 to 50:
The woman who was anointing Jesus feet with her tears, wiping them with her hair, oiling them with expensive perfume, kissing his feet.
In the culture back then. It was custom when a traveler has entered you house has a guest, to wash his feet, because just having sandals, the feet would be dusting and hot.
It was also a custom to greet your guest with a kiss,
It was also anointed an important guest like a teacher, with oil.
The difference: A woman in a life of sin, which would of gotten her stone, where society would not of touch her with a ten foot pole, where she was shunned.
because of her choices of livelyhood.
This woman of lower status, a society's outcast, dared to enter a Pharisee home, touch a man, and this man
not object.
Pharisee due to the nature of the times, properly questions Jesus character, due to the character of the woman, and what Jesus was allowing to continue happening.
The woman was a sinner. Yet Jesus has compassion on sinners.
Jesus told a parable to the Pharisee, then got the pharisee the question who was forgiven much.
THen Jesus turn the tables on the Pharisee.
See this woman, vs: 44: this woman wash my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.
You Simon, my host failed to provide.
This woman has not ceased kissing my feet, yet Simon , you did not provide me a kiss of friendship upon entering the house.
This woman anointed my feet, with expense oil,
You Simon did not even anionted my head.
Jesus said that woman repentant actions with her tears, hair, kissing and her oil.
was in submissive to Jesus, Jesus recognized this, and forgave the woman. In vs:50 Go in peace, Your faith has saved you.
The woman in her humble state of repentant, paid more homage to Jesus , than an important official of Jerusalem, who should of known the customary greetings you give a guest, and failed.
You are right. This is just one example of Jesus compassion on woman, and Jesus was not afraid to show that compassion for them.
Woman are important to Jesus.
