John 12:1

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:1-8

Jesus Is Anointed (John 12:1-8 ). This incident is significant in that it is unintentionally prophetic. By her action in anointing Jesus, Mary is intending to proclaim her gratitude and love, but what she does not know, although the readers are intended to recognise it, is that she is anointing Him both as Messiah and for His burial. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 12:1-8

John 12. The Final Scenes in the Public Manifestation. John 12:1-Ruth : . The Anointing.— The scene is the same as that recorded by Mt. and Mk. Luke 7:36-Philippians : represents a different incident, or at least a widely divergent tradition, from which, however, some details in Jn. may be borrowed. The date, six days before the Passover, may by different methods of calculation be identified with Nisan 8, 9, or 10. The last is the most probable. Apparently the author deliberately corrects... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 12:1

From the country near to the wilderness, where Jesus continued with his disciples, John 11:54, he came to Bethany, within less than two miles of Jerusalem, upon the sabbath day, or possibly the night before, six days before the passover: it was the place where (as we read in the former chapter) Lazarus died, and was by Christ raised from the dead. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 12:1-8

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTESJohn 12:1. See Homiletic Note, p. 341.John 12:2. The Synoptists inform us that it was in the house of Simon the leper (Matthew 26:6; Mark 14:3). It has been suggested that Simon was a relative of the family of Lazarus, or that Martha was the wife of Simon. There is no ground for such conjectures. It seems more in accordance with verisimilitude that Simon and Lazarus, being both subjects of Jesus’ healing power, resolved to honour their Benefactor, and that the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - John 12:1-50

Chapter 12Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very expensive, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the aroma of the ointment ( John 12:1-3 ).Typical of Mary, worshipping;... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - John 12:1-50

John 12:1 . Six days before the passover. The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. This, the last week or consummation of the Saviour’s labours, was full of glory. Every day we find him in the temple, and sleeping every night in Bethany, except the night of the passover. As soon as the sabbath was over, the people having heard of his arrival at Bethany, and glowing with ardour... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - John 12:1-16

John 12:1-16Then Jesus six days before the Passover.--The following calendar of the Passover week is taken from Lightfoot (2.586):NISAN IX; The Sabbath. Six days before the Passover, Jesus sups with Lazarus at the going out of the Sabbath, when according to the custom of that country their suppers were more liberal.NISAN X; Sunday. Five days before the Passover, Jesus goes to Jerusalem on an ass, and in the evening returns to Bethany (Mark 11:11). On this day the lamb was taken, and kept till... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - John 12:1

1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. Ver. 1. Came to Bethany ] To convert some, confirm others, and to refresh himself with his fast friends, ere he fell into the hands of his bloody enemies. So Cromwell, Earl of Essex, going to his death, first called for his breakfast, and cheerfully eating the same, and after that meeting the Lord Hungerford going likewise to his execution, and perceiving him to be... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - John 12:1

six: John 11:55 Bethany: John 11:1, John 11:44, Matthew 21:17, Mark 11:11, Luke 24:50 Reciprocal: Exodus 12:3 - in the tenth Matthew 8:15 - and ministered Matthew 26:2 - the feast Matthew 26:6 - in Bethany Mark 14:3 - being Luke 10:38 - a certain Luke 21:37 - the day time John 6:4 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - John 12:1

Six days before the passover - Namely, on the Sabbath: that which was called by the Jews, "The Great Sabbath." This whole week was anciently termed "The great and holy week." Jesus came - From Ephraim, John 11:54 . read more

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