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New Living Translation

John 11:2

This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anointing;   Family;   Friendship;   Jesus, the Christ;   Lazarus;   Mary;   Miracles;   Readings, Select;   Weeping;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Hair;   Miracles;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anointing;   Families;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Mary;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Anoint;   Mary Magdalene;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel of;   Lazarus;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dominion (2);   Feet (2);   Hospitality;   Lord (2);   Martha ;   Mary;   Names and Titles of Christ;   Oil ;   Popularity ;   Reserve;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lazarus ;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus and Martha;   New Testament;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethany;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lazarus;   Martha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hair;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anoint;   Hair;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.
King James Version (1611)
(It was that Mary which anoynted the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her haire, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)
King James Version
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
English Standard Version
It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.
New American Standard Bible
And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
New Century Version
Mary was the woman who later put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Mary's brother was Lazarus, the man who was now sick.
Amplified Bible
It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Legacy Standard Bible
And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Berean Standard Bible
(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, would later anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
Complete Jewish Bible
(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
Darby Translation
It was [the] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Easy-to-Read Version
(Mary is the same woman who put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) Mary's brother was Lazarus, the man who was now sick.
Geneva Bible (1587)
(And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)
George Lamsa Translation
This is the Mary who anointed the feet of Jesus with perfume and wiped them with her hair. Lazarus who was sick, was her brother.
Good News Translation
(This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.)
Lexham English Bible
(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Literal Translation
And it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
American Standard Version
And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Bible in Basic English
(The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.)
Hebrew Names Version
It was that Miryam who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, El'azar, was sick.
International Standard Version
Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.Matthew 26:7; Mark 14:3; John 12:3;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
It was that Mariam who anointed with balsam the feet of Jeshu, and wiped (them) with her hair, whose brother this Loozar was who was sick.
Murdock Translation
It was that Mary who anointed the feet of Jesus with perfume, and wiped [fn] with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
(It was that Marie which anoynted ye Lorde with oyntment, and wyped his feete with her heere, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)
English Revised Version
And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
World English Bible
It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(It was that Mary, who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick) Therefore his sisters sent to him,
Weymouth's New Testament
(It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it was Marye, which anoyntide the Lord with oynement, and wipte hise feet with hir heeris, whos brother Lazarus was sijk.
Update Bible Version
And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Webster's Bible Translation
(It was [that] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
New English Translation
(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
New King James Version
It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
New Life Bible
This was the Mary who put perfume on the Lord and dried His feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.
New Revised Standard
Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Mary was she who anointed the Lord with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair - whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Revised Standard Version
It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Laz'arus was ill.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
It was that Mary which annoynted Iesus with oyntment and wyped his fete with her heere whose brother Lazarus was sicke
Young's Literal Translation
and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It was yt Mary which anoynted ye LORDE wt oyntment, & dryed his fete wt hir heer, whose brother Lazarus laye sicke.)
Mace New Testament (1729)
(it was that Mary who perfum'd the Lord with ointment, after having wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Simplified Cowboy Version
(Mary was that gal who poured perfume on Jesus and cleaned his feet with her hair.)

Contextual Overview

1 A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha. 2 This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3 So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, "Lord, your dear friend is very sick." 4 But when Jesus heard about it he said, "Lazarus's sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this." 5 So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, 6 he stayed where he was for the next two days. 7 Finally, he said to his disciples, "Let's go back to Judea." 8 But his disciples objected. "Rabbi," they said, "only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?" 9 Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world. 10 But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that Mary: John 12:3, Matthew 26:6, Matthew 26:7, Mark 14:3

anointed: Luke 7:37, Luke 7:38

Reciprocal: Luke 7:2 - was sick Luke 7:36 - one

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.
Genesis 11:9
That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
Genesis 13:11
Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan Valley to the east of them. He went there with his flocks and servants and parted company with his uncle Abram.
Genesis 14:1
About this time war broke out in the region. King Amraphel of Babylonia, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Kedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim
Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.
Daniel 1:2
The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah and permitted him to take some of the sacred objects from the Temple of God. So Nebuchadnezzar took them back to the land of Babylonia and placed them in the treasure-house of his god.
Zechariah 5:11
He replied, "To the land of Babylonia, where they will build a temple for the basket. And when the temple is ready, they will set the basket there on its pedestal."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment,.... Not the woman in Luke 7:37, as some have thought, whose name is not mentioned, and which history is not related by John at all: but Mary in John 12:3, who is both mentioned by name, and along with Lazarus her brother, and with whom all the circumstances of the affair suit; and though the fact was not yet done, yet John writing many years after it was done, and when it was well known, proleptically, and in a parenthesis, takes notice of it here:

and wiped his feet with her hair; instead of a napkin, after she had anointed them with oil; John 12:3- :,

John 12:3- :.

Whose brother Lazarus was sick; this is observed, to show how well they were all acquainted with Christ, and affected to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It was that Mary ... - See the Matthew 26:6 note; Luke 7:36-50 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 11:2. It was that Mary which anointed — There is much disagreement between learned men relative to the two anointings of our Lord, and the persons who performed these acts. The various conjectures concerning these points the reader will find in the notes on Matthew 26:7, c., but particularly at the end of that chapter. Matthew 26:7- :

Dr. Lightfoot inquires, Why should Bethany be called the town of Martha and Mary, and not of Lazarus? And he thinks the reason is, that Martha and Mary had been well known by that anointing of our Lord, which is mentioned Luke 7:37 (see the note there;) but the name of Lazarus had not been mentioned till now, there being no transaction by which he could properly be brought into view. He therefore thinks that the aorist αλειψασα, which we translate anointed, should have its full force, and be translated, who had formerly anointed; and this he thinks to have been the reason of that familiarity which subsisted between our Lord and this family; and, on this ground, they could confidently send for our Lord when Lazarus fell sick. This seems a very reasonable conjecture; and it is very likely that the familiarity arose out of the anointing.

Others think that the anointing of which the evangelist speaks is that mentioned John 12:1, &c., and which happened about six days before the passover. St. John, therefore, is supposed to anticipate the account, because it served more particularly to designate the person of whom he was speaking.


 
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