Mark 14:3
Meanwhile Jesus was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the house of Simon the leper, and a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment made of pure nard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured the ointment on his head.
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In Context
2But they said, “Not during the feast, otherwise there will be a riot among the people.”
4But some were expressing indignation to one another, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
Cross References
Matthew 21:17And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
Matthew 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
John 11:2(Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment 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 →