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Mark 14:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Mark 14:3 ESV

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.

Mark 14:4 ESV

There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?

Mark 14:5 ESV

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

Mark 14:6 ESV

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

Mark 14:7 ESV

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.

Mark 14:8 ESV

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.

Mark 14:9 ESV

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.”