a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.
- Matthew 26:7
While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
- Mark 14:3
When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.
- Luke 7:37
Empty, empty, empty, silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
- Virginia Woolf
There came unto him [Jesus] a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.