Matthew 26:6-13 ▼

6 While Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper,

7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head while he sat at the table.

8 But when the disciples saw this, they became irritated and said, |Why this waste?

9 Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute.|

10 But knowing this, Jesus asked them, |Why are you bothering the woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

11 You'll always have the destitute with you, but you'll not always have me.

12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for burial.

13 I tell all of you with certainty, wherever this gospel is proclaimed throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her.|