Mark 14:3
Good News Translation
Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. While Jesus was eating, a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus' head.

New Revised Standard Version
While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus was eating in Bethany at the home of Simon, who once had leprosy, when a woman came in with a very expensive bottle of sweet-smelling perfume. After breaking it open, she poured the perfume on Jesus' head.

New American Bible
When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

being.

Matthew 26:6,7 And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, . . .

John 11:2 (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

John 12:1-3 Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. . . .

of ointment.

Songs 4:13,14 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard. . . .

Songs 5:5 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

Luke 7:37,38 And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment. . . .

spikenard.

Context
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people. 3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head. 4Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?…
Cross References
Songs 1:12
A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.

Matthew 21:17
And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and remained here.

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

Matthew 26:7
There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.

Mark 14:2
But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

Mark 14:4
Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Luke 7:37
And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.

John 12:1
Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

John 12:3
Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Mark 14:2
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