Mark 14:3

And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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 on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

4Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

Matthew 21:17And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and remained there.

Matthew 26:6And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

John 11:2(And Mary was she 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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