Mark 14:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And while He was in Bethany, [a guest] in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining [at table], a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment (perfume) of pure nard, very costly and precious; and she broke the jar and poured [the perfume] over His head.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.

Common English Bible

³ Jesus was at Bethany visiting the house of Simon, who had a skin disease. During dinner, a woman came in with a vase made of alabaster and containing very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke open the vase and poured the perfume on his head.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Mark 14:3 Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:12

While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.

Song of Solomon 5:5

I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

Matthew 21:17

He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.

Mark 14:2

for they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.”

Mark 14:4

But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way?

John 11:2

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.