Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 Now the Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest Him covertly and kill Him;

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

3 While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper, He was reclining at the table, and a woman came with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.

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

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

6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done a good deed for Me.

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

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

9 Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the entire world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”