While he was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, , as he was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.
John 11:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was [now] sick. American Standard Version (1901) And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. Common English Bible This was the Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was ill.) Catholic Public Domain Version And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was sick. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.) |
While he was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, , as he was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said, ‘Don’t weep.’
and sent them to the Lord, asking, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else? ’
Then Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
So the sisters sent a message to him: ‘Lord, the one you love is ill.’
As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died! ’
Then Mary took about half a litre of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
You call me Teacher and Lord #– #and you are speaking rightly, since that is what I am.
So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.