Mark 14:3
And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.
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2But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.
4But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:13The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
Matthew 21:17And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.
Matthew 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
John 11:2(The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.)
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 →