John 12:3

Then toke Mary a pounde of oyntmet called Nardus perfecte and precious and anoynted Iesus fete and wipt his fete with her heer and the housse was filled of the savre of the oyntmet.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

In Context

2There they made him a supper and Martha served: But Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.

4Then sayde one of his disciples name Iudas Iscariot Simos sonne which afterwarde betrayed him:

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Cross References

Matthew 26:6When Iesus was in Bethany in the house of Symon the leper

Luke 7:37And beholde a woman in that cite which was a synner assone as she knewe that. Iesus sate at meate in the pharises housse she brought an alablaster boxe of oyntmet

Luke 10:38It fortuned as they wet that he entred in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha receaved him into her housse.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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