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John 12:3

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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.

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John 12:3 in other translations

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.

John 12:3 · American Standard Version

John 12:3 in context

  1. 1Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
  2. 2So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
  3. 3Therefore 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.
  4. 4Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
  5. 5“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”