 | William Ward - 1817 - 366 pages
...head to the waist. Servants thus attend at the tables of poor Europeans half naked. Mark xiv. 3. ' There came a woman, having an alabaster box of ointment...and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.' Pouring sweet-scented oil on the head is common in this country. At the close of the festival of Doorga,... | |
 | Jesus Christ, William Huttmann - 1818 - 224 pages
...purification before the passover. John xi. 55, 57. Jesus sups in the house of Simon the Leper: and there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment...precious, and she brake the box and poured it on his head. Mark xiv. 3, 9. He sends two of his disciples to a village for a colt, and rides triumphantly into... | |
 | 1818 - 424 pages
...of Simon the leper, is he sat at meat, there came a vornan liavinç an alabaster bos rf ointment ot spikenard, very precious ; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And tliere were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...contents of tiic bottle. See Frag, to CALMET'S Diet, first Hundred, p. 106. 886. [Exod. xxix. 14.] CHARDIN describes the Persians as sometimes transporting their wine in buck- or goat-skins, which are pitched, and when the skin is good the wine is not at all injured, nor tastes... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1819 - 434 pages
...Conduct is thus related in the third verse of the chapter. " Jesus being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman...and she brake the box and poured it on his head." According to the custom of those times, this action, though contrary to our ideas and practice, would... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1819 - 416 pages
...Conduct is thus related in the third verse of the chapter. " Jesus being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman...and she brake the box and poured it on his head." According to the custom of those times, this action, though contrary to our ideas and practice, would... | |
 | Episcopal Church - Anglican Communion - 1819 - 558 pages
...Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany, in. the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman...and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...This offering to Daniel is considered by some as a sacrifice to a deity. See also St. Mark, xiv. 3 : " There came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment...and she brake the box, and poured it on his head." See also Matth. xxvi. 7To sprinkle the apartments and the persons of the guests with rose-water, and... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 406 pages
...metal.-fSt. Mark mentions it as a thing of great value; for when Christ was in Bethany, " in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman,...and she brake the box, and poured it on his head." They who were present observed that " it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence."J... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1822 - 444 pages
...Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 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, box, and poured it on his head. Ana there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said,... | |
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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. 
