Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

2 “ Not during the festival,” they said, “ or there may be rioting among the people.”

3 While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.

4 But some were expressing indignation to one another: “ Why has this fragrant oil been wasted?

5 For this oil might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor.” And they began to scold her.

6 Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me.

7 You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have Me.

8 She has done what she could; she has anointed My body in advance for burial.

9 I assure you: Wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”