John 12:3

Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the perfume of the ointment.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

In Context

2There they made him a supper, and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined at table with him.

4Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, who was about to deliver him up:

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Cross References

Matthew 26:6When Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Luke 7:37And, behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that he reclined at table in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

Luke 10:38And it came to pass, as they continued their journey, that he entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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