Mark 14:1-9

The Leaders Plot against Jesus

14¹ Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him. ² For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

³ And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head. ⁴ And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment? ⁵ for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her. ⁶ But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me; ⁷ for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always. ⁸ What she could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial. ⁹ And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this [woman] has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.