“(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) / Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.”
Bible
“Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.”
“Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.”
James Joyce
“A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]”
“In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.”
Whittaker Chambers
“Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.”
“Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.”
