Mark 14:3

New American Bible - revised edition

When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:12

W While the king was upon his couch, my spikenard gave forth its fragrance.

Song of Solomon 5:5

I rose to open for my lover, my hands dripping myrrh: My fingers, flowing myrrh upon the handles of the lock.

Matthew 21:17

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and there he spent the night. The Cursing of the Fig Tree.

Matthew 25:17

Likewise, the one who received two made another two.

Mark 14:2

They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.” The Anointing at Bethany.

Mark 14:4

There were some who were indignant. “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?

John 11:2

Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.