For they said, “Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people.”

Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany

And while[a] he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as[b] he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After[c] breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it[d] out on his head. But some were expressing indignation to one another:[e] “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:3 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)
  2. Mark 14:3 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was reclining for a meal”)
  3. Mark 14:3 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“breaking”) which is understood as temporal
  4. Mark 14:3 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Mark 14:4 Or perhaps “within themselves”