Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill [Him];

2 for they were saying, |Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people.|

3 While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining [at the table], there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; [and] she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

4 But some were indignantly [remarking] to one another, |Why has this perfume been wasted?

5 |For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and [the money] given to the poor.| And they were scolding her.

6 But Jesus said, |Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.

7 |For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

8 |She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

9 |Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.|