Mark 14:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 for they said, ‘Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.’
The Anointing at Bethany
3 While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,[a] 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. 4 But some were there who said to one another in anger, ‘Why was the ointment wasted in this way?
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- Mark 14:3 The terms leper and leprosy can refer to several diseases
Mark 14:2-4
New International Version
2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”
3 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)
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?
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