Mark 14:3-9

Legacy Standard Bible

The Costly Perfume

^3 (A)And while He was in ^(B)Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster jar of perfume of very ^(C)costly pure ^[a]nard; and she broke the jar and poured it over His head. ⁴ But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted? ⁵ For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred ^[b]denarii and given to the poor.” And they were scolding her. ⁶ But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She did a good work to Me. ⁷ For you always have ^(D)the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me. ⁸ She has done what she could; ^(E)she anointed My body beforehand for the burial. ⁹ And truly I say to you, ^(F)wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be spoken of in memory of her.”