Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ When Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷ there came to him a woman who had an alabaster jar of precious anointing oil, and poured it on his head as he sat at the board. ⁸ When his disciples saw that, they were indignant, saying, Why this waste? ⁹ This oyntment might well have been sold, and the money given to the poor. ¹⁰ When Jesus understood this he said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? She has wrought a good work upon me. ¹¹ For you will have poor folk always with you, but me you will not have always. ¹² And in that she poured this oyntment on my body, she did it to bury me with. ¹³ Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout all the world, there also will this that she has done be told, for a memorial of her.