Marcos 14:3

3 Mientras tanto, Jesús se encontraba en Betania, en la casa de Simón, un hombre que había tenido lepra. Mientras comía,
entró una mujer con un hermoso frasco de alabastro que contenía un perfume costoso, preparado con esencias de nardo. Ella abrió el frasco y derramó el perfume sobre la cabeza de Jesús.

Marcos 14:3 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:3

And being in Bethany
A place about two miles from Jerusalem, whither he retired after he had took his leave of the temple, and had predicted its destruction; a place he often went to, and from, the last week of his life; having some dear friends, and familiar acquaintance there, as Lazarus, and his two sisters, Martha and Mary, and the person next mentioned:

in the house of Simon the leper;
so called because he had been one, and to distinguish him from Simon the Pharisee, and Simon Peter the apostle, and others; (See Gill on Matthew 26:6);

as he sat at meat there came a woman;
generally thought to be Mary Magdalene, or Mary the sister of Lazarus:

having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard;
or "pure nard", unmixed and genuine; or liquid nard, which was drinkable, and so easy to be poured out; or Pistic nard, called so, either from "Pista", the name of a place from whence it was brought, or from "Pistaca", which, with the Rabbins, signifies "maste"; of which, among other things, this ointment was made. Moreover, ointment of nard was made both of the leaves of nard, and called foliate nard, and of the spikes of it, and called, as here, spikenard. Now ointment made of nard was, as Pliny says ^F23, the principal among ointments. The Syriac is, by him, said to be the best; this here is said to be

very precious,
costly, and valuable:

and she brake the box.
The Syriac and Ethiopic versions render it, "she opened it"; and the Persic version, "she opened the head", or "top of the bottle", or "vial":

and poured it on his head;
on the head of Christ, as the same version presses it; (See Gill on Matthew 26:7).

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Nat. Hist. l. 12. c. 12.

Marcos 14:3 In-Context

1 Jesús es ungido en Betania
Faltaban dos días para la Pascua y el Festival de los Panes sin Levadura. Los principales sacerdotes y los maestros de la ley religiosa seguían buscando una oportunidad para capturar a Jesús en secreto y matarlo.

2 «Pero no durante la celebración de la Pascua —acordaron—, no sea que la gente cause disturbios».

3 Mientras tanto, Jesús se encontraba en Betania, en la casa de Simón, un hombre que había tenido lepra. Mientras comía,
entró una mujer con un hermoso frasco de alabastro que contenía un perfume costoso, preparado con esencias de nardo. Ella abrió el frasco y derramó el perfume sobre la cabeza de Jesús.

4 Algunos que estaban a la mesa se indignaron. «¿Por qué desperdiciar un perfume tan costoso? —preguntaron—.

5 ¡Podría haberse vendido por el salario de un año
y el dinero dado a los pobres!». Así que la regañaron severamente.