Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 7:45

"Thou gavest me no kiss: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet." — Luke 7:45 (ASV)

You gave me no kiss:

Yet that was the Eastern custom in welcoming an honoured guest.

Thou gavest me no kiss,

Which was usually given as a greeting to guests at that time.

Simon had not given Jesus the honour due to him, which would have been to kiss his forehead.

But this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

She has done what you ought to have done; she has done it better than you could have done it; she has done it when there was no claim upon her to do it, except that she had been forgiven much, and, therefore, loved much.

But this woman, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

Every word is emphatic to show how far she had gone beyond Simon, who thought himself so much better than she was.

Thou gavest me no kiss:

Though that was the ordinary mode of an honoured guest.

But this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

"At best, you would only have kissed me once, but this woman, since I came in, has never left off kissing my feet. With a sacred audacity of love, she has lifted my feet to her lips, and kissed them again and again." So, see here again how the first is last, and the last first.