SIMON the Pharisee invited Jesus to dinner. As they sat at the table, a sinful woman brought a pot of precious ointment and stood behind Jesus, weeping. Then she washed his feet with her tears, wiped them with her hair, and anointed them with the ointment. Simon thought to himself that if Jesus were a prophet he would know that the woman who touched him was a sinner. Jesus rebuked Simon and pointed out that because the woman loved greatly, much was forgiven her (Luke 27:36-50). Mary Magdalene is identified with the sinful woman in Gregory's XL Homiliae in evangelica XVXV and XXXIII (PL 76: 1189 and 1238-1246), written c. A.D. 584.

In his homily on envy, the Parson says that sometimes people grumble because of pride, like Simon the Pharisee, who grumbled against the Magdalene when she wept at Jesus's feet for her sins, ParsT 504-507. [Magdalene]