Mark 14:3

And he was in Beit-Anyah at the bais of Shim'on the leper, reclining at tish, and an isha (woman) came, having an alabaster flask of costly perfume, pure nard, and having broken open the alabaster flask, she poured [it on] the head of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2For they were saying, Not at the Chag, for fear that a riot break out among the am haaretz.

4Now some were there who in ka'as (anger) said to one another, For what reason has this waste of ointment taken place?

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plants are a pardeis (park, paradise) of pomegranates, with pleasant p'ri; 1 henna with spikenard, 1

Matthew 21:17And having left them, he went out of the city to Beit-Anyah (Bethany) and spent the night there.

Matthew 26:6And, while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in Beit-Anyah in the bais of Shim'on the leper,

John 11:2Now this was the same Miryam that anointed Adoneinu with mishcha + 11:2 12:3 (ointment) and wiped his feet with her hair. It was she whose ach El'azar was choleh.

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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