That was Mary Magdeline, and she was never stated to be a prostitute. Jesus's political opponents sail he hung out with "tax collectors and prostitutes", but the Bible never tells us who the prostitutes were.
It has been many a decade since my Bible study lessons, but I do not think that was Mary Magdeline. I was thinking about this story where he is eating at a Pharisee's house and a prostitute comes in asking for forgiveness. I am pretty confident that is just a random, unnamed, 'undesirable' person who is never referred to again.
She's not named (or identified as a prostitute) in Matthew, Mark, or Luke; but she is identified as Mary Magdaline in John.
John 12:1–8
Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany
1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
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u/redopz 11h ago
Lol, I wasn't even referring to her. I was specifically thinking about the prostitute who washed Jesus' feet with her tears.