16 Bible Verses about Ointment

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes.

a woman came up to him who had an alabaster vase of very costly perfume, and poured it over his head, as he reclined at table.

And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was dining, a woman came with an alabaster vase of very costly, pure spikenard perfume, and, breaking the vase, she poured the perfume on his head.

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume,

"But when one of you fasts, let him anoint his head and wash his face,

"you never anointed my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with my feet with perfume.

"In pouring this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for my burial.

She has done what she could. she has before time anointed my body for my burial.

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought spices in order to go and anoint him.

On the Sabbath Day they rested in obedience to the commandment, but in the deep dawn of the first day of the week they took the spices which they had prepared, and came to the tomb.

Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night, at first) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.

when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, and exclaimed. "Why is this waste? This perfume could have been sold for a good sum, and the money given to the poor."

Some of those who were present said among themselves indignantly. "Why has the perfume been wasted like this? That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

"He went to him bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine. He set him on his own beast, and took him to an inn, and took care of him.