Sabbath Dinner in Bethany

Matthew 21:17

He left and went to Bethany, where he was staying.

Mark 11:11b

When he had looked around, since evening had come, he went to Bethany with the twelve.

John 12:2-11

There, they prepared a dinner for him, which Martha served. Lazarus reclined with him and the twelve at the meal. Mary, however, took a pound of spikenard ointment—which is very costly—and anointed Jesus’s feet. She then dried his feet with her hair and the room was filled with the aroma.

Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son—the one who would betray him—said, “Why wasn’t this ointment sold and the money given to the poor? It could have brought a year’s wages!”

He didn’t say this because he was concerned for the poor, but because he was a thief. He carried the purse and was responsible for what was put in it.

Then Jesus said, “Let her alone. She has saved this for my burial day. You’ll always have the poor to help, but you won’t always have me.”

Meanwhile, a large crowd of the Judeans came, knowing where he was. They came to get a glimpse of him—and Lazarus, too, who had been raised from the dead. But the chief priests strategized as to how to also kill Lazarus, because of his having been dead and resuscitated, many of the Judeans left seeing him, and believed on Jesus.