Mary Anointing Jesus Feet With Oil
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. 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 Anointing of the Feet of Jesus
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 - 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.
Mary anoints the feet of Jesus Painting by Michael Nowak | Fine Art America
Spikenard is an expensive, perfumed ointment used for anointing the dead. Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil-pure and expensive nard-anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the 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. As Jesus dined at the house of his friends in Bethany, one of his friends, Mary, anointed his feet with expensive oil.
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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. Which Mary anointed Jesus with oil? There is some debate over who the woman was who anointed Jesus with oil, but most believe it was Mary of Bethany.
She was a close friend of Jesus, and her brother Lazarus had recently been raised from the dead by Jesus. Some Bible scholars believe that she may have also been the woman who poured perfume on Jesus's feet at the feast in Simon's house. 3 Mary took a litre of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
4 Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, 5 "Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages and given to the poor?" - John 12:1.
