Matthew 17:7

17:7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Do not be afraid.”

Matthew 26:7

26:7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfumed oil, and she poured it on his head as he was at the table.

Matthew 20:20

A Request for James and John

20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

Matthew 26:69

Peter’s Denials

26:69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”


sn A jar made of alabaster stone was normally used for very precious substances like perfumes. It normally had a long neck which was sealed and had to be broken off so the contents could be used.

tn Μύρον (muron) was usually made of myrrh (from which the English word is derived) but here it is used in the sense of ointment or perfumed oil (L&N 6.205).

tn Grk “as he was reclining at table.”

tn Grk “asked something from him.”

tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.