"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 o…" — Mark 14:3

Mark 14:3 · KJV

“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. {spikenard: or, pure nard, or, liquid nard}”

— Mark 14:3

Verse 2

But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Verse 4

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Mark 14 — Context

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.

But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar of the people.

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. {spikenard: or, pure nard, or, liquid nard}

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Cross References

Luke 7:37-39

And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that {Jesus} sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

John 12:1-8

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

John 11:2

(It was {that} Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

Matthew 26:6-13

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Song of Solomon 4:13-14

Thy plants {are} an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, {camphire: or, cypress}

Song of Solomon 5:5

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped {with} myrrh, and my fingers {with} sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. {sweet...: Heb. passing, or, running about}

Matthew 21:17

And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.