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.”+

12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethʹa·ny, where Lazʹa·rus+ was, whom Jesus had raised up from the dead. 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.”+