“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”

The Anointing at Bethany

While Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon(A) the leper,[a] a woman approached him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume. She poured it on his head as he was reclining at the table.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:6 Gk lepros; a term for various skin diseases; see Lv 13–14

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