Mark 14:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And while He was in Bethany, [a guest] in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining [at table], a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment (perfume) of pure nard, very costly and precious; and she broke the jar and poured [the perfume] over His head. American Standard Version (1901) And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head. Common English Bible Jesus was at Bethany visiting the house of Simon, who had a skin disease. During dinner, a woman came in with a vase made of alabaster and containing very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke open the vase and poured the perfume on his head. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head. |
I rose to open for my love. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
Then he left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
‘Not during the festival,’ they said, ‘so that there won’t be a riot among the people.’
But some were expressing indignation to one another: ‘Why has this perfume been wasted?
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.