When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them.

But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.

The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

No,' they replied. 'There won't be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfumed oil, and she poured it on his head as he was at the table.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.