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Mark 14:3

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard very precious; and she broke the flask, and poured it on his head.

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Bede

AD 735

His head, which Mary anointed, represents the sublimity of his deity. His feet indicate the lowliness of his incarnation. We too anoint his feet when we proclaim with due praise the mystery of the incarnation which he took upon himself. We too anoint his head when we venerate the loftiness of his divinity with a consent fitting to him.

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