The Anointing at Bethany
1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany 12:1 Mk 11:1 where Lazarus 12:1 Other mss read Lazarus who died was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead. 12:1 Jn 11:43–442 So 12:2–8 Mt 26:6–13; Mk 14:3–9 they gave a dinner for him there; Martha 12:2 Jn 11:1 was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. 12:3 Mk 14:3; Jn 11:2 So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.