Mark 14:1-3

New Testament for Everyone

Jesus is anointed at Bethany

14 Passover—the Feast of Unleavened Bread—was due in two days. The chief priests and the lawyers were plotting how to seize Jesus by a trick, and kill him.

² “We can’t do it at the feast,” they said. “The people might riot.”

³ Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon (known as “the Leper”). While he was at table, a woman came up with an alabaster pot containing extremely valuable ointment made of pure spikenard. She broke the pot and poured the ointment on Jesus’ head.