A moment in scripture
Mark 14:3
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
The surrounding passage
- Mark 14:1
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
- Mark 14:2
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
- Mark 14:4
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
- Mark 14:5
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.