But they said, “Not during the feast, (A)lest there be an uproar among the people.”

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

(B)Now when Jesus was at (C)Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,[a] a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:6 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

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