Then Mary took a pound of pure nard, very precious perfume, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
The siblings from that place heard about us, and they came to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.