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3 Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head. 4 But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted? 5 For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her. 6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me. 7 For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always. 8 What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial. 9 And I solemnly tell you that wherever in the whole world the Good News shall be proclaimed, this which she has done shall also be told in remembrance of her." Mark 14:3-9, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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