6 Bible Verses about Anointing, Social Custom

But when you fast, perfume your hair and wash your face,

One of the Pharisees asked him to have dinner with him, and he went to the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table. Now there was a woman in the town who was leading a sinful life, and when she learned that he was having dinner at the Pharisee's house, she got an alabaster flask of perfume, and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.read more.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

And Mary took a pound of choice perfume, very costly, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.

When Jesus got back to Bethany, to the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table. When his disciples saw it, they said indignantly, "What was the use of wasting it like that?read more.
It might have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor." But Jesus observed this and said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? It is a fine thing that she has done to me. For you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this perfume on me she has done something to prepare me for burial.

After this, Joseph, of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him remove Jesus' body, and Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph went and took the body down. And Nicodemus also, who had first come to Jesus at night, went, taking a roll of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds. So they took Jesus' body, and wrapped it with the spices in bandages, in the Jewish way of preparing bodies for burial.