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.)

{G1161}(It was {G2258} that Mary {G3137} which {G3588} anointed {G218} the Lord {G2962} with ointment {G3464}, and {G2532} wiped {G1591} his {G846} feet {G4228} with her {G846} hair {G2359}, whose {G3739} brother {G80} Lazarus {G2976} was sick {G770}.)

(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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Cross-References

  • John 12:3 (11 votes)

    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.

  • Mark 14:3 (10 votes)

    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.

  • Matthew 26:6 (9 votes)

    ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

  • Matthew 26:7 (9 votes)

    There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat [at meat].

  • Luke 7:37 (7 votes)

    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 7:38 (7 votes)

    And stood at his feet behind [him] weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the ointment.