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for they said, “Not during the feast, (A)lest there be an uproar from the people.”

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

(B)And while he was at (C)Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,[a] as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:3 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13