'Ointment' in the Bible

a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor."

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

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard -- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"