New Testament · VERSE 3

Mark 14:3

King James Version

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.

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Mark 14:3 in context

Mark 14:1

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

Mark 14:2

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Mark 14:3SELECTED VERSE

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.

Mark 14:4

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Mark 14:5

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

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