Mark 14:3

And while He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining for a meal, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly pure nard. And having broken the flask, she began to pour it out over His head.

English Majority Text (NT)

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 an uproar among the people.” 1 The Anointing at Bethany

4But some were expressing indignation to one another and saying, “Why has this waste of the perfume occurred?

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Cross References

Matthew 21:17And having left them, He went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. 1 Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

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

John 11:2Now it was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with myrrh, 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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