Mark 14:3-9 ▼

3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.

4 But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: “What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?

5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor.” And they murmured against her.

6 But Jesus said: “Permit her. What is the reason that you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me.

7 For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always.

8 But she has done what she could. She has arrived in advance to anoint my body for burial.

9 Amen I say to you, wherever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the entire world, the things she has done also shall be told, in memory of her.”