3 And while he was at Bethʹa·ny dining* in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, genuine nard, very expensive. She broke open the alabaster jar and began pouring it on his head.+ 4 At this some said to one another indignantly: “Why has this perfumed oil been wasted? 5 For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than 300 de·narʹi·i+ and the money given to the poor!” And they were greatly annoyed with* her. 6 But Jesus said: “Let her alone. Why do you try to make trouble for her? She did a fine deed toward me.+ 7 For you always have the poor with you,+ and you can do them good whenever you want to, but you will not always have me.+ 8 She did what she could; she poured perfumed oil on my body beforehand, in view of the burial.+ 9 Truly I say to you, wherever the good news is preached in all the world,+ what this woman did will also be told in memory of her.”+

2 So they spread an evening meal for him there, and Martha was serving them,+ but Lazʹa·rus was one of those dining* with him. 3 Then Mary took a pound of perfumed oil, genuine nard, very costly, and she poured it on the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet dry with her hair.+ The house became filled with the scent of the perfumed oil.+ 4 But Judas Is·carʹi·ot,+ one of his disciples, who was about to betray him, said: 5 “Why was this perfumed oil not sold for 300 de·narʹi·i and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, though, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief and had the money box and used to steal the money put in it. 7 Then Jesus said: “Let her alone, so that she may keep this observance in view of the day of my burial.+ 8 For you always have the poor with you,+ but you will not always have me.”+