Mark 14:3

And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he reclined at table, there came a woman that had an alabaster box of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

In Context

2But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.

4And some of them were displeased within themselves, and said: For what purpose was this waste of the ointment?

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Cross References

Matthew 21:17And he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and there spent the night.

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

John 11:2It was the Mary that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12

Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →

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