John 12:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

⁶ Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷ a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of expensive perfume which she poured over his head as he lay at table. ⁸ When the disciples saw this they were angry. "What is the use of this waste?" they said; ⁹ "the perfume might have been sold for a good sum, and the poor might have got that." ¹⁰ But Jesus was aware of what they said, and he replied, "Why are you annoying the woman? It is a beautiful thing she has done to me. ¹¹ The poor you always have beside you, but you will not always have me. ¹² In pouring this perfume on my body she has acted in view of my burial. ¹³ I tell you truly, wherever this gospel is preached through all the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

³ Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head. ⁴ This angered some of those present. "What was the use of wasting perfume like this? ⁵ This perfume might have been sold for over three hundred shillings, and the poor might have got that." So they upbraided her. ⁶ But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. ⁷ The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me. ⁸ She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial. ⁹ I tell you truly, wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

³⁷ Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume ³⁸ and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.

⁴⁶ you never anointed my head with oil, while she has anointed my feet with perfume.

³⁸ In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house. ³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.)

²⁸ and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."

³² But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."