16 Bible Verses about Ointment

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointment; and they rested on the sabbath, according to the commandment.

there came to him a woman who had an alabaster box of very costly ointment; and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he reclined at table, there came a woman that had an alabaster box of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.

And, behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that he reclined at table in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

But do you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face;

You did not anoint my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for its burial.

Then Jesus said: Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.

And when the sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

And on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared; and with them came certain others.

Then came Nicodemus also, (who, at the first, had come to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, according to the Jewish custom of burying.

But when his disciples saw it, they were displeased, and said: For what purpose was this waste? For this could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

And some of them were displeased within themselves, and said: For what purpose was this waste of the ointment? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

And he went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and he put him on his own beast, and carried him to an inn, and took care of him.