Precious
Ointment Passages
Matthew 26
(1)
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he said to
his disciples:
(2)
You know that after two days
shall be the pasch, and the son of man
shall be delivered up to be crucified:
(3)
Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the
people into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:
(4)
And they consulted together, that by subtilty they might apprehend
Jesus, and put him to death.
(5)
But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a
tumult among the people.
(6)
And when Jesus was in Bethania, in
the house of Simon the
leper,
(7)
There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment,
and poured it on his head as he was at table.
(8)
And the disciples seeing it, had indignation, saying: To what purpose
is this waste?
Mark 14
(1)
Now
the feast of the pasch,
and of the Azymes was after two days; and
the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile
lay hold on him, and kill him.
(2)
But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult
among the people.
(3)
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.
(4)
Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said:
Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Luke 7
(36)
And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went
into
the house of the Pharisee, and sat down to meat.
(37)
And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that
he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of
ointment;
(38)
And standing behind at his feet, she began to wash his feet, with
tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head,
and kissed his feet,
and anointed them with the ointment.
(39)
And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself,
saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would know surely who and what
manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.
(40)
And Jesus answering, said to him:
Simon, I have somewhat to
say to
thee. But he said: Master, say it.
The above seems to have happened long
before the approach of the pasch.
It was until chapter 19 in Luke that we read:
(26)
But I say to you, that to every one that hath shall be given, and he
shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath,
shall be taken from him.
(27)
But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them,
bring them hither, and kill them before me.
(28)
And having said these things, he went before, going up to Jerusalem.
(29)
And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethania,
unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
(30)
Saying: Go into the town which is over against you, at your entering
into which you shall find the colt of an ass tied, on which no man ever
hath sitten: loose him, and bring him hither.
(31)
And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? you shall say thus
unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service.
(32)
And they that were sent, went their way, and found the colt standing,
as he had said unto them.
(33)
And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said to them: Why
loose you the colt?
(34)
But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him.
(35)
And they brought him to Jesus. And casting their garments on the colt,
they set Jesus thereon.
John 12
(1)
Jesus therefore,
six days
before the pasch, came to Bethania, where
Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.
(2)
And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was
one of them that were at table with him.
(3)
Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great
price, and
anointed the feet
of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her
hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
(4)
Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray
him, said:
(5)
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to
the poor?
Mary
Magdalen in New Testament
1 "Among whom was Mary Magdalen, and Mary the
mother of James and
Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee." [Matthew
27:56]
2 "And there was there Mary Magdalen, and the
other Mary sitting
over against the sepulchre." [Matthew
27:61]
3 "And in the end of the
sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the
first day of the week, came Mary
Magdalen and the other Mary, to see
the sepulchre." [Matthew
28:1]
4 "And there were also women
looking on afar off: among whom was
Mary Magdalen, and
Mary the mother of James the less and of Joseph, and
Salome:" [Mark
15:40]
5 "And Mary Magdalen, and Mary the
mother of Joseph, beheld where he
was laid." [Mark
15:47]
6 "And when the sabbath was
past, Mary Magdalen,
and Mary the mother
of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming, they might
anoint Jesus." [Mark
16:1]
7 "But he rising early the
first day of the week, appeared first to
Mary Magdalen, out of
whom he had cast seven devils." [Mark
16:9]
8 "And it was Mary Magdalen, and Joanna,
and Mary of James, and the
other women that were with them, who told these things to the
apostles." [Luke
24:10]
9 "Now there stood by the cross
of Jesus, his mother, and his
mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen." [John
19:25]
10 "And on the first day of the
week, Mary Magdalen
cometh early,
when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre; and she saw the stone taken
away from the sepulchre." [John
20:1]
11 "Mary Magdalen cometh, and
telleth the disciples: I have seen the
Lord, and these things he said to me." [John
20:18]
12 "And certain women who had been healed of
evil spirits and
infirmities; Mary who
is called Magdalen,
out of whom seven devils were
gone forth," [Luke 8:2]