Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 NOW the passover and the feast of unleavened bread were but two days distant; and the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how they might seize him by craft, and kill him.

2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be a commotion among the people.

3 And when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came, having an alabaster vase of ointment, of genuine spikenard, of vast value: and breaking the vase, she let it flow down upon his head.

4 And there were some who felt indignation within themselves, saying, Wherefore is this waste of the ointment made?

5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they bitterly murmured against her.

6 Then said Jesus, Let her alone; why give ye her uneasiness? she hath performed a laudable act towards me.

7 For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

8 What was in her power she hath done; she has seized the opportunity to anoint my body beforehand for burial.

9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached through the whole world, there shall, what she hath done, be told for a memorial of her.