But they were saying, “Not during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people.”

Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany

Now while[a] Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured it[b] out on his head while he[c] was reclining at table.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:6 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)
  2. Matthew 26:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Matthew 26:7 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was reclining at table”)