Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 And the Passover and the Unleavened [Bread] were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of Him, they might kill Him;

2 and they said, “Not in the celebration, lest there will be a tumult of the people.”

3 And He, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at His reclining, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, poured [it] on His head;

4 and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, “For what has this waste of the ointment been made?

5 For this could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor”; and they were murmuring at her.

6 And Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you giving her trouble? She worked a good work on Me;

7 for you always have the poor with you, and whenever you may will you are able to do them good, but you do not always have Me;

8 she did what she could, she anticipated to anoint My body for the embalming.

9 Truly I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be spoken of—for a memorial of her.”