Mark 14:1-9

11Now 2the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes 3were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him; 2for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people.”

34While He was in 5Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very 6costly perfume of pure 7nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head. 4But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted? 5For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred 8denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her. 6But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me. 7For you always have 9the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me. 8She has done what she could; 10she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial. 9Truly I say to you, 11wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”