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Mark 14:3–9
3 And while* he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as* he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After* breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it* out on his head. 4 But some were expressing indignation to one another:a “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? 5 For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they began to scoldb her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me. 7 For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; ⌊she has anointed my body beforehand⌋c for burial. 9 And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.
| * | Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”) |
| * | Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was reclining for a meal”) |
| * | Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“breaking”) which is understood as temporal |
| * | Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation |
| a | Or perhaps “within themselves” |
| b | The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to scold”) |
| c | Literally “she has anticipated to anoint my body” |
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