Mark 14:3

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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.

Cross References

Matthew 21:17

He then left them and went out of the city [of Jerusalem] to Bethany [Note: This was a small village near Bethphage] and stayed there [i.e., probably at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. See John 11:1].

Matthew 25:17

In the same way the one who was given two talents made two more.

Mark 14:2

But they reasoned, “We will not [take him] during the Festival, because it might start a riot among the people.”

Mark 14:4

But some [of the disciples. See Matt. 26:8] were upset among themselves, saying, “What is the reason for wasting this perfume?

John 11:2

This was the Mary who had poured the perfume on the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair [See Matt. 26:6-13], whose brother Lazarus was sick.