Mark 14:3-9 (NASB)
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Mark 14:3
While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.
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Mark 14:4
But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?
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Mark 14:5
“For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.
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Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.
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Mark 14:7
“For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.
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Mark 14:8
“She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.
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Mark 14:9
“Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”