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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.

KJV

Καὶ ὄντος αὐτοῦ ἐν Βηθανίᾳ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ Σίμωνος τοῦ λεπροῦ, κατακειμένου αὐτοῦ ἦλθεν γυνὴ ἔχουσα ἀλάβαστρον μύρου νάρδου πιστικῆς πολυτελοῦς· συντρίψασα τὸν ἀλάβαστρον κατέχεεν αὐτοῦ τῆς κεφαλῆς.

Greek NT

Et cum esset Bethaniæ in domo Simonis leprosi, et recumberet, venit mulier habens alabastrum unguenti nardi spicati pretiosi : et fracto alabastro, effudit super caput ejus.

Vulgate

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.

ASV

And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Βηθανία
bethania
noun · 12×
Σίμων
simon
noun · 75×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατάκειμαι
katakeimai
verb · 12×
καταχέω
katacheo
verb · 2×
κεφαλή
kephale
noun · 75×
λεπρός
lepros
adjective · 9×
μύρον
muron
noun · 14×
νάρδος
nardos
noun · 2×
οἰκία
oikia
noun · 94×
πιστικός
pistikos
adjective · 2×
πολυτελής
poluteles
adjective · 3×
συντρίβω
suntribo
verb · 7×
ἀλάβαστρον
alabastron
noun · 4×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: συντρίψασα | WH/NIV: συντρίψασα | Treg/RP: καὶ συντρίψασα
  • συντρίψασαSBLGNT
  • συντρίψασαWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • καὶ συντρίψασαTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: τὴν | RP: τὸ
  • τὴνSBLGNT
  • τὴνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τὸRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοῦ | RP: + κατὰ
  • αὐτοῦSBLGNT
  • αὐτοῦWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + κατὰRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • John 11:2 — (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
  • John 11:2 — (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
  • John 12:1 — Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
  • John 12:1 — Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
  • John 12:2 — There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
  • John 12:3 — Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
  • Luke 7:36 — And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.
  • Luke 7:37 — And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
  • Luke 7:37 — And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
  • Mark 16:1 — And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
  • Matt 26:6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  • Matt 26:6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  • Song 1:12 — While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.