Mark 14:3

And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

4Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plantes are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as camphire, spikenarde,

Matthew 21:17So hee left them, and went out of the citie vnto Bethania, and lodged there.

Matthew 26:6And when Iesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

John 11:2(And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)

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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