Sinai LogoSinai

John 12:3

American Standard Version

Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

Read all of John 12Open in the Sinai app

John 12:3 in other translations

Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

John 12:3 · World English Bible

John 12:3 in context

  1. 1Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
  2. 2So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.
  3. 3Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
  4. 4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,
  5. 5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?