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The Rabbit Hole of Jesus' Anointing
There's a story of Jesus getting anointing with some kind of perfumey or expensive oil by a woman in each of the four gospels. The details are told in different ways, so that there's something core that happened, but it's refracted through four prisms. It all happens in Bethany, all the stories. There's a whole history of discussion about did Jesus get oil put on him two times? Or did it just happen one time and the memory is reflected in different ways? But what I want to focus on is the Mark 14 in the Matthew 26 version because in those versions, Jesus is anointed on his head. Which is how you anoint a king