I chose Mark 14, Jesus anointed at Bethany, mainly because my mother chose my middle name to be Bethany. What I found interesting was that both Mark and John take care to point out that the burial rite of anointing was performed. For Mark, it was performed at Bethany—by virtue of a fiction—and nothing was done after Jesus' death. For John, Jesus' body was actually anointed after his death, and the action at Bethany is not represented as performance of the burial rite.
Very probably, the earliest tradition was that Jesus had been.[1]
Bibliography
Daube, David. 1950. "Anointing at Bethany and Jesus' burial." Anglican Theological Review 32, no. 3: 186-199. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed January 19, 2012).
[1] Daube, David. 1950. "Anointing at Bethany and Jesus' burial." Anglican Theological Review 32 (no. 3: 186-199) ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost ,69.
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