Matthew 26:6-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Anointing at Bethany

⁶ Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,^{[a] 7} a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. ⁸ But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, ‘Why this waste? ⁹ For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor.’ ¹⁰ But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why do you trouble the woman? She has performed a good service for me. ¹¹ For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. ¹² By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial. ¹³ Truly I tell you, wherever this good news^[b] is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.’