for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people.”

(A)While He was in (B)Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very (C)costly perfume of pure [a]nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head. But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:3 An aromatic oil extracted from an East Indian plant