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3 While he was in
Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a
woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard.
She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying
indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume?
5 It could have been sold for more than a
year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.
6 "Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why
are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
7 The poor you will always have with you, and
you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
8 She did what she could. She poured perfume
on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9
I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout
the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
Mark 14:3-9 (also Luke 7:36-50) |
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