Mark 14:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And 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 14:3 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 7:37-39
And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, …
John 12:1-8
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. …
John 11:2
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Matthew 26:6-13
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, …
Song of Solomon 4:13-14
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

We have here instances, I. Of the kindness of Christ’s friends, and the provision made of respect and honour for him. Some friends he had, even in and about Jerusalem, that loved him, and never thought they could do enough for him, among whom, though Israel be not gathered, he is, and will be, glorious. 1. Here was one friend, that was so kind as to invite him to sup with him; and he was so kind a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman--It was “Mary,” as we learn from Joh 12:3. having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard--pure nard, a celebrated aromatic--(See So 1:12). very precious--“very costly” (Joh 12:3). and she brake the box, and poured it on his head--“and anointed,” adds John (Joh 12:3), “the feet of Jesus, and wiped His…