16 Bible Verses about Ointment

Then they went back home, and prepared spices and perfumes.

a woman with an alabaster bottle of very costly perfume came up to Him while He was at table and poured it upon His head.

While He was in Bethany, He was a guest in the home of Simon the leper, and as He was sitting at table, a woman came in with an alabaster bottle of pure nard perfume, very costly; she broke the bottle and poured the perfume on His head.

There was a woman in the town who was a social outcast, and when she learned that He was taking dinner at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster bottle of perfume

But whenever you, follower of mine, fast, perfume your head and wash your face,

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

For in putting this perfume on my body she has done it to prepare me for my burial.

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

Then Jesus said, "Let her alone; let her keep it for the day of my funeral,

When the Sabbath had ended, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Him.

Now on the Sabbath they rested, in accordance with the commandment, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.

Now Nicodemus also, who had formerly come to Jesus at night, went and took a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about one hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in bandages with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial.

When the disciples saw it, they were very indignant, and said, "Why such waste? Surely it could have been sold for a large sum and the money given to the poor."

But some of the guests were indignantly saying to themselves, "Why was such a waste of the perfume made? It might have been sold for more than sixty dollars, and the money have been given to the poor." So they kept on grumbling at her.

"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars and the money given to the poor?"

So he went to him and dressed his wounds by pouring oil and wine upon them, and then he put him on his donkey and brought him to an inn and took care of him.