7a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.


In Context

4 and they plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly way and kill him.

5 "But not during the Feast," they said, "or there may be a riot among the people."

6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper,

7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.

8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked.

9 "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor."

Matthew 26:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:7There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat [at meat. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:7There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he was at table.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:7there came unto him a woman having an alabaster cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head, as he sat at meat.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:7a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:7there came unto him a woman having an alabaster cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head, as he sat at meat.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:7There came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he sat at table.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:7a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:7there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:7There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.