14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,(A)
with all the trees of frankincense,(B)
myrrh and aloes,(C)
with all the best spices.

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The Anointing at Bethany

While(A) he was in Bethany(B) at the house of Simon the leper,[a](C) as he was reclining at the table,(D) a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 14:3 Gk lepros; a term for various skin diseases; see Lv 13–14

Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair.(A) So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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