Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 Now after two days was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread; and the high priests and the scribes were seeking how, taking Him by guile, they might kill Him;

2 for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there should be an uproar of the people."

3 And, while He was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining at table , there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly; and, having broken the cruse, she was pouring it down on His bead.

4 But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, saying , "To what purpose has this waste of the ointment been made?

5 For this ointment could have been sold for above three hundred denaries, and given to the poor!" And they were murmuring against her.

6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do ye cause her trouble? She wrought a good work on Me;

7 for the poor ye always have with you; and whensoever ye will, ye can do them good; but Me ye have not always.

8 She did what she could: she anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

9 And verily I say to you, wheresoever the Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman did shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."