Mark 14:3

New Century Version

Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, who had a skin disease. While Jesus was eating there, a woman approached him with an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She opened the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus’ head.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:12

The smell of my perfume spreads out to the king on his couch.

Song of Solomon 5:5

I got up to open the door for my lover. Myrrh was dripping from my hands and flowing from my fingers, onto the handles of the lock.

Matthew 21:17

Then Jesus left and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the servant who had two bags invested them and earned two more.

Mark 14:2

But they said, “We must not do it during the feast, because the people might cause a riot.”

Mark 14:4

Some who were there became upset and said to each other, “Why waste that perfume?

John 11:2

Mary was the woman who later put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Mary’s brother was Lazarus, the man who was now sick.