Matthew 26:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ a woman with an alabaster [i.e., stone] jar of very expensive perfume came to Him and poured it on His head as He reclined at the dinner table. [Note: See Matt. 23:6]

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ A woman came up to Him with an alabaster flask of very precious perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at table.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ there came unto him a woman having an alabaster cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head, as he sat at meat.

Common English Bible

⁷ a woman came to him with a vase made of alabaster containing very expensive perfume. She poured it on Jesus’ head while he was sitting at dinner.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ a woman drew near to him, holding an alabaster box of precious ointment, and she poured it over his head while he was reclining at table.

Matthew 26:7 Cross References

Luke 7:46

You did not pour [aromatic] oil on my head, but she poured perfume on my feet.

Matthew 26:8

But when His disciples saw this they were very upset and said, “What is the reason for such waste?

Mark 14:3

And while Jesus was in Bethany [Note: This was a small village fewer than two miles east of Jerusalem], sitting at the dinner table in the house of Simon, the man with an infectious skin disease [Note: This man had probably been healed by now], a woman with an alabaster [i.e., stone] jar of very expensive perfume came to Him, broke the jar and poured the perfume on His head.