Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after seizing Him in secret, they might kill Him;

2 for they were saying, “Not during the festival, lest there be a riot of the people.”

3 And while He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster jar of perfume of very costly pure nard; and she broke the jar and poured it over His head.

4 But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?

5 For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.

6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She did a good work to Me.

7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

8 She has done what she could; she anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

9 And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be spoken of in memory of her.”