Mark 14:1-9 ▼

1 Now the feast of the passover and unleavened bread was within two days: and the chief priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize Him by treachery and put Him to death.

2 But they said, Not on the feast- day, least there be a tumult of the people.

3 And when He was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He was at table, there came a woman with an alabaster- box of ointment of spikenard, very valuable; and she brake the box and poured it on his head.

4 And there were some provoked at it and said, Why was this waste made of the ointment?

5 For it might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they inveighed against her.

6 But Jesus said, Let her alone, why do ye give her uneasiness?

7 She has done a kind office to me. For ye have the poor always with you, and may do them good, whenever ye will; but me ye have not always.

8 She has done what she could: she has embalmed my body beforehand against the burial.

9 Verily I tell you, wheresoever this gospel is preached, through all the world, what she hath done shall also be told for a memorial of her.