Thematic Bible: Most expensive
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Then Mary took about a pint of expensive, aromatic perfume; [it was] genuine nard [Note: This was a sweet-smelling herb] and poured [some of] it on Jesus' feet and wiped them with her hair. The [whole] house was filled with the fragrant scent of the perfume.
Verse Concepts
"Why was this perfume not sold for a large sum of money [Note: The amount here was equivalent to three hundred days of a farm laborer's pay, or over $20,000 in 1994] and [then] the money given to poor people?"
Verse Concepts
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- Admiration
- Adoration, Of Christ
- Anointed By People
- Anointing Oneself
- Anointing With Oil
- Anointing, Social Custom
- Armory
- Denarius
- Drinking Wine
- Expensive
- Feeding The Poor
- Feet
- Fragrance
- Giving To The Poor
- Gold
- Guests
- Hair
- Hairs
- Herbs And Spices
- Money, Uses Of
- Not Mourning
- Ointment
- Other References To Hair
- Perfume
- Pride, Examples Of
- Pride, Origin
- Pure Things
- Smells
- Sweet Odours
- Taking Mixed Metals
- Things Revealed
- Value
- Wages
- Weights Of Other Things
- Worth
- Credibility