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For they were saying, “Not during the Feast, so that there will not perhaps be an uproar of the people”.

Jesus Is Anointed With Oil In Preparation For His Burial

And He being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, while He is reclining [to eat], a woman came having an alabaster-jar of very-precious genuine[a] nard[b] perfume[c]. Having broken the alabaster-jar, she poured it down over His head. But some were being indignant to themselves— “For what purpose has this waste of perfume taken place?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:3 Or, pure.
  2. Mark 14:3 Or, spikenard.
  3. Mark 14:3 Or, fragrant oil.

“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”

While he was in Bethany,(A) reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.(B)

Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?

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