3 While Jesus was in Bethany (house of affliction) reclining at the table in the home of Simon (hearing) the Leper (Simon the Potter), a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard (spikenard). She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

4 Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?

5 It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii (days’ wages) and the money given to the poor. And they scolded her.

Mark 14:3-5, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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