Matthew 26:6-13 ▼

6 And when Jesus was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 there came to Him a woman with an alabaster- box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as He was at table:

8 but when his disciples saw it, they were some of them provoked at it, and said, Wherefore is this waste?

9 for this ointment might have been sold for a great deal of money, and given to the poor.

10 But Jesus, knowing what passed, said to them, Why do ye give the woman uneasiness? for she has done a good office to me:

11 (seeing ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always:) for in pouring this ointment on my body,

12 she has embalmed me for my burial.

13 Verily I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached, in the whole world, what she hath done shall also be spoken of for a memorial of her.