John 12:1-8 - Jesus Is Anointed At Bethany

¹ Then Jesus, six days before the pascha, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus the dead, whom he raised from the dead. ² Then made they him a supper there, and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of them reclining at table with him. ³ Then Mary having taken a pound of perfumed oil of spikenard, very precious, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs: and the house was filled with the smell of the perfumed oil.

⁴ Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, of Simon, being about to deliver him up, ⁵ Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor? ⁶ And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.

⁷ Then said Jesus, Let her go; for the day of my interment has she kept this. ⁸ For the poor have ye always with you;and me ye have not always.