Sentences with phrase «pure nard»

The ointment was pure nard.

Each was worth around 6,000 denarii, which today would be more than I've earned in my 25 years in the ministry, or 20 of those flasks of pure nard Mary used on the feet of Jesus.

Without warning, Mary appeared, clutching an alabaster vial containing a costly perfume — a pound of pure nard worth three hundred denarii, a year's wages.

3Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.