Ally Yost
speaker
23,351 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Ally Yost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It just means full surrender.
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Like the things that you're giving are the same things that Mary gave at his feet, which was the most expensive perfume she had, which was, you know, wiping his feet with her tears and her hair.
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The reason why there is so much significance with Mary deciding to wash Jesus' feet with her hair was culturally at that time, in a Jewish cultural setting.
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adult women, and particularly married ones,
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generally did not present their hair loosely in public the way women commonly do today.
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Hair and its presentation were connected to modesty, respectability, and appropriate public behavior.
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So there were parts of a woman's appearance that were considered private and weren't ordinarily displayed intimately in public.
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So to have
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your beautiful hair displayed in public, especially for an adult woman who is married, was not really a thing.
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So wearing the hair covered, bound, or otherwise modestly arranged communicated to the world, to the public, respectability.
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So Mary, in that moment, she's having dinner with Jesus and there's other people in the room too.
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Okay.
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So we could read this today and be like, that's not really a big deal.
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But at the time
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Everything she's doing is like countercultural.
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It's not, it's not a common thing to be doing.
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Okay.
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Even just with the first act of her taking an extremely expensive perfume and pouring it on Jesus' feet.
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Then she gets down at his feet, and instead of reaching for a towel or, you know, a cloth of some sort, she uses her own hair.
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So that would require her bringing her hair down to his feet and likely loosening it if it had been bound or put up or covered.
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