Mark 14:3-9 During his stay in Bethany in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was reclining at table there came a woman with an alabaster jar of pure nard perfume, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ During his stay in Bethany in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was reclining at table there came a woman with an alabaster jar of pure nard perfume, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. ⁴ Some were indignant among themselves and said, "For what purpose was this waste of the perfume? ⁵ This perfume could have been sold for more than three hundred shillings and the money given to the poor." So they were indignant at her. ⁶ But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. ⁷ The poor you have always with you, and whenever you will you can do them good, but me you have not always. ⁸ She has done what she could. She has anticipated the anointing of my body for burial. ⁹ I tell you truly wherever the good news shall be proclaimed over the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."