...connected with the words of our Text. Our LORD was in the house of Simon the leper at Bethany, and as HE sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster...themselves ; and said, " Why was this waste of the ointment I.] made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor1." Many...

...very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus :'' or, as St. Mark records it, " And being at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, as he sat at meat...precious, and she brake the box, and poured it on hishead :'' desiring, in her humble manner, to anoint Him from head to foot whom the Lord had anointed,...

...bird. had ,nd n«»t. As soon as a e, the food was s« natu.eo ™ Waldo Emer.on The Best for Christ As He sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious— Mark 14:3. That woman could have gotten a vase that would not have cost so much as those made of alabaster....

...put him to death. 2 But they said. Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 II And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,...spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured // on his head. 4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said. Why was this...

...but it would continually rush back into the thoughts as on the wings of a tempest. "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" (Mark...

...they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people. 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 spikenard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head. But...

...any business arise among the people. When he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment called nard, that was pure and costly: and she brake the box and poured it on his head. And there were...

...unleavened bread." Here we have an allusion to the sign Libra and the autumnal equinox. Verse 3. "... as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment . . . and poured it on his head." Herein is an allusion to one of the properties of Libra ; a box,...

...Matthew situate a very similar episode in this house: Jesus was at table; a woman approached him with 'an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious;...and she brake the box and poured it on his head'. To Judas Iscariot, who was enraged, saying it would have been better to give the money to the poor,...

...Matthew situate a very similar episode in this house: Jesus was at table; a woman approached him with 'an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious;...and she brake the box and poured it on his head'. To Judas Iscariot, who was enraged, saying it would have been better to give the money to the poor,...