16 Bible Verses about Ointment

And then went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. During the Sabbath they rested, as directed by the commandment

a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and poured the perfume upon his head as he was at table.

When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.

Just then a woman, who was an outcast in the town, having ascertained that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of perfume,

But, when one of your fasts, let him anoint his head and wash his face,

You did not anoint even my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.

In pouring this perfume on my body, she has done it for my burying.

She has done what she could; she has perfumed my body beforehand for my burial.

"Let her alone," said Jesus, "that she may keep it till the day when my body is being prepared for burial.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices, so that they might go and anoint the body of Jesus.

But very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, taking with them the spices that they had prepared.

Nicodemus, too--the man who had formerly visited Jesus by night--came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.

The disciples were indignant at seeing this. "What is this waste for?" they exclaimed. "It could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to poor people."

Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly: "Why has the perfume been wasted like this? This perfume could have been sold for more than thirty pounds, and the money given to the poor."

"Why was not this perfume sold for thirty pounds, and the money given to poor people?"

He went to him and bound up his wounds, dressing them with oil and wine, and then put him on his own mule, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.