The Anointing at Bethany

While(A) he was in Bethany(B) at the house of Simon the leper,[a](C) as he was reclining at the table,(D) a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 14:3 Gk lepros; a term for various skin diseases; see Lv 13–14

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair,(A) and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

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