For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles,<n id="1" /> but<n id="2" /> he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> while Jesus<n id="2" /> was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table,<n id="3" /> a woman came with an alabaster jar<n id="4" /> of costly aromatic oil<n id="5" /> from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.