Mark 14:3
Jesus was at Bethany town in the house of Simon, whom Jesus had healed from leprosy. While they were eating, a woman came to him. She was carrying a stone jar that contained expensive fragrant perfume called nard. She opened the jar and then she poured the perfume on Jesus’ head.
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:13You are like [MET] an orchard of pomegranate trees full of delicious fruit, and plenty of plants that produce henna and nard spices,
Matthew 21:17Then Jesus left the city. We disciples went with him to Bethany town, and we slept there that night.
Matthew 26:6While Jesus and we were in Bethany village in the home of Simon, whom Jesus had healed of leprosy,
John 11:2Mary was the woman who later poured perfume on the feet of the Lord Jesus, and then wiped his feet 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 →