There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii[a] and (A)given to the poor.” And they (B)scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For (C)you always have the poor with you, and whenever (D)you want, you can do good for them. But (E)you will not always have me. (F)She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand (G)for burial. And truly, I say to you, wherever (H)the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told (I)in memory of her.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:5 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer

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