Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany 1 Six days before i the Passover, j Jesus therefore came to Bethany, k where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. l Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.
3 m Mary therefore took a pound 1 of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his. Mary Anoints Jesus 12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived,[a] the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him.
Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a litron[b] of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. Mary - First of two anointings by two different women Evening of the 8th of Nisan.
Mary, the sister of both Lazarus and Martha, anointed Jesus' feet with spikenard six days before His crucifixion. Spikenard is an expensive, perfumed ointment used for anointing the dead. JOHN 12:3 3 Then Mary took a litra of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair.
And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. All four gospels present an account of Jesus being anointed by a woman with a costly jar of perfume (Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; Luke 7:36-50; John 12:1-8). Matthew and Mark relate the same event but do not give the woman's name; Luke tells of a different woman, also anonymous, on an earlier occasion; and, in yet another event, the woman in John is identified as Mary of Bethany.
The anointings of Jesus 's head or feet are events recorded in the four gospels. The account in Matthew 26, Mark 14, takes place on Holy Wednesday, while the account in John 12 takes place 6 days before Passover in Bethany, a village in Judaea on the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives, where Lazarus lived. In Matthew and Mark, he is anointed by an unnamed woman.
In John, the woman is. The anointing of feet is an intimate and personal expression of love and devotion. It signifies a deep personal connection and recognition of Jesus' divine authority and mission.
The act of wiping His feet with hair, as both Mary and the sinful woman did, further emphasizes the personal sacrifice and vulnerability involved in true worship. Because Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus' feet and wipes them with her hair, many assume she must be the same person as the sinful woman in Luke's gospel. It is important to notice all the details in the passage to avoid assuming that these are simply minor variations.
As Jesus dined at the house of his friends in Bethany, one of his friends, Mary, anointed his feet with expensive oil. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.