Mark 14:3-9
3 (A)While He was in (B)Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very (C)costly perfume of pure (a)nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.
4 But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?
5 For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred (b)denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.
6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.
7 For you always have (D)the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.
8 She has done what she could; (E)she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.
9 Truly I say to you, (F)wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”
Footnotes:
a.
Mark 14:3: ['An aromatic oil extracted from an East Indian plant']
b.
Mark 14:5: ['The denarius was equivalent to a day’s wages']
Cross references:
E.
Mark 14:8:
John 19:40