Matthew 26:6-13 - Jesus' Anointing At Bethany

⁶ And Jesus being at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷ a woman came to him having a vase of very costly ointment, and poured it on his head, as he reclined. ⁸ And his disciples seeing it were displeased, and said, Why is this waste? ⁹ This could have been sold for much and given to the poor.

¹⁰ But Jesus knowing it, said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? for she has done a good work for me; ¹¹ for the poor you always have with you, but me you have not always. ¹² For in putting this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. ¹³ I tell you truly, that wherever this good news is preached in all the word, what this woman has done shall be told for a memorial of her.

³ And when he was at Bethany, and was reclining at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came, having a vase of ointment of genuine nard, extremely costly, and breaking the vase she poured it out on his head. ⁴ And some were displeased, [and said] to themselves, Why was this waste of the ointment? ⁵ For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii [$42] and given to the poor; and they blamed her.

⁶ But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good work on me. ⁷ The poor you have always with you, and you can do them good when you will; but me you have not always. ⁸ She has done what she could. She anticipated anointing my body for the burial. ⁹ I tell you truly, that wherever this good news shall be preached in all the world, this also which she has done shall be told for a memorial of her.