Verse set: Mark 14:3-9§↻

14 3 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

4 But some who were present indignantly said to one another, "Why this waste of expensive ointment?

5 It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!" So they spoke angrily to her.

6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

7 For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

8 She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.

9 I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

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Created on Aug 22, 2023.