Mark 14:3
Meanwhile Jesus was in Bethany, eating a meal at Simon the leper's home. A woman came in with an alabaster jar of very expensive pure nard perfume. She broke the jar open and poured the perfume on Jesus' head.
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2“But not during Passover,” they said to themselves, “otherwise the people may riot.”
4Some of those who were there became annoyed and said, “Why waste this perfume?
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:13Your channel is a paradise of pomegranates, full of the best fruits, with henna and nard,
Matthew 21:17Jesus left them and went out of the city to stay at Bethany.
Matthew 26:6While Jesus was staying at Simon the leper's house in Bethany,
John 11:2Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who 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 →