Supper Time

Mark 14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

Matthew 26:6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7. There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

Simon the leper is what I find interesting here in the beginning of chapter 14 of Mark. I also included Matthews account.

Is Simon currently a leper as Jesus sups with him, or is Simon an ex-leper? The text would indicate that he was a leper at the time of the supper; I can find no other history on him.

Nobody objects to the woman, only to the ointment and the application of it. It’s nice to see that by this time the disciples accepted the fact that with Jesus, men and women and children were all welcome to come to him. The fuss about the ointment is a smoke screen to cover up their own lusts and Jesus knows it.


Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Jesus only asks us to do what we are able to do, but he does ask that it be done from the heart.