Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 And two daies after followed the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the hie Priests, & Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

2 But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

3 And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

4 Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?

5 For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.

6 But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.

7 For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.

8 She hath done that she coulde: she came afore hand to anoynt my body to the burying.

9 Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shalbe spoken of in remembrance of her.