[14:3] And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
[14:4] There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?
[14:5] For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.
[14:6] But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
[14:7] For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
[14:8] She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.
[14:9] And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”