Mark 14:1-5 ▼

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.