Verse 3

And when he was at Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, euen as he sate at meate, there came a woman hauyng an alabaster boxe of very precious oyntment, called Narde pisrike, and she brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 21:17 : 17 And he left them, and went out of the citie, vnto Bethanie: and he lodged there.
• Luke 7:37-39 : 37 And beholde, a woman in that citie, which was a sinner, assoone as she knewe that Iesus sate at meate in the pharisees house, she brought an alabaster boxe of oyntment: 38 And stoode at his feete behynde hym, weepyng, and began to washe his feete with teares, & dyd wype them with the heeres of her head, and kyssed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment. 39 When the pharisee which had bydden hym, sawe, he spake within hym selfe, saying: If this man were a prophete, he woulde surely knowe who, & what maner of woman this is, that touched hym, for she is a sinner.
• John 11:2 : 2 (It was that Marie which anoynted ye Lorde with oyntment, and wyped his feete with her heere, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)
• John 12:1-8 : 1 Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passouer, came to Bethanie, where Lazarus had ben dead, whom he raysed from death. 2 There they made hym a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with hym. 3 Then toke Marie a pounde of oyntment of Spike narde, very costly, and annoynted Iesus feete, and wyped his feete with her heere: and the house was fylled with the odoure of the oyntment. 4 Then sayde one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which shoulde betraye hym. 5 Why was not this oyntment solde for three hundred pence, and geuen to the poore? 6 This he sayde, not that he cared for the poore: but because he was a thiefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was geuen. 7 Then sayde Iesus: Let her alone, agaynst the day of my burying hath she kept this. 8 For the poore alwayes shall ye haue with you: but me haue ye not alwayes.
• Matt 26:6-9 : 6 When Iesus was in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came vnto him a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of precious oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the boorde. 8 But when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying: to what purpose is this waste? 9 This oyntment might haue ben well solde, and geuen to the poore. 10 When Iesus vnderstode that, he saide vnto them: Why trouble ye the woma? for she hath wrought a good worke vppon me. 11 For ye haue the poore alwayes with you: but me shall ye not haue alwayes. 12 For in that she hath cast this oyntment on my body, she dyd it to bury me. 13 Ueryly I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospell shalbe preached in the world, there shall also this that she hath done, be tolde for a memoriall of her.
• Song 4:13-14 : 13 The fruites that are planted in thee, are lyke a very paradise of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as Camphire, Nardus, 14 & Saffron, Calamus, Sinamom, with all sweete smellyng trees, Myrre, Aloes, and all the best spyces,
• Song 5:5 : 5 I stoode vp to open vnto my beloued, and my handes dropped with Myrre, & the Myrre ranne downe my fingers vpon the locke.