Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 And after two days it would be the Passover and the Unleavened. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, having taken Him by stealth, they might kill Him.

2 For they were saying, “Not during the feast, lest there will be an uproar of the people.”

3 And of Him being in Bethany in the house of Simon the Leper, at His having reclined, a woman came, having an alabaster flask of fragrant oil of pure nard of great price. Having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it on His head.

4 And some were indignant within themselves: “Why has this waste of the fragrant oil come to pass?

5 For this fragrant oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they were grumbling at her.

6 And Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why do you? cause trouble to her? She did a good work toward Me.

7 For the poor you? always have with you, and you? are able to do them good whenever you? desire; but not always do you? have Me.

8 She did what she could. She came beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.

9 And truly I say to you?, wherever the gospel shall be proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did also will be spoken of, for a memorial of her.”