Mary Magdalena Nard Oil

Mary Magdalene nard also known as spikenard, Nardine,Muskroot, and it is a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. Spikenard rhizomes (underground stems) can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic amber-colored essential oil, which is very thick in consistency. Nard oil is used as a perfume, an incense. And the story as it is in the bible as follow: 1then, six days before the Passover, jesus came to Bethany, where lazarus was who had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead.2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.3 then mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled wih the fragrance of the oil. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, 5 “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii[b] and given to the poor?” 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. 7 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept[c] this for the day of My burial. 8 For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” John 12:1-9