Mark 14:3

New English Translation

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:12

While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance.

Song of Solomon 5:5

I arose to open for my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh – my fingers flowed with myrrh on the handles of the lock.

Matthew 21:17

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

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

Mark 14:2

For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.”

Mark 14:4

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment?

John 11:2

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)