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Joh_12:3-4. To explain the great quantity of the ointment (12 ounces) as the outcome of the superabundance of her love (Olshausen), is arbitrary. Mary did not anoint with the whole pound, but with a portion of it (comp. on Joh_12:7). On πιστικός ,[104] genuine, unadulterated, see on Mar_14:3.
πολυτίμου ] belongs to ΜΎΡΟΥ , as ΠΟΛΥΤΕΛ ., Mar_14:3.
ΤΟῪς ΠΌΔΑς ΑὐΤΟῦ ] repeated, on account of the correlation with ΤΑῖς ΘΡΙΞῚΝ ΑὐΤῆς , in order to make prominent the greatness of the love; with her hairs, His feet.
ἐκ τῆς ὀσμῆς ] ἐκ causal. Comp. Mat_23:25; Rev_8:5; Plat. Phaedr. p. 235 C; Dem. 581. 26, et al.
εἷς ἐκ τ . ΜΑΘ . Ἀ .] the rest did not agree with him; but it was Judas, etc.
ὁ μέλλων , κ . τ . λ .] This utterance stood in truth already in psychological connection with this destiny; see on Joh_6:71.
[104] If John adopted this word from Mark,—which, considering the rareness of its occurrence, is probable, and may have been done quite involuntarily,—this shows no literary dependence, and does not justify the suspicion that he also drew the subject-matter from this source (Hilgenfeld). Should πιστιχός be the adjective of a proper name (Pistic), all objection would disappear of itself. Comp. on Mar_14:3, note 2. Goth. also has pistikeinis.