3 While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.
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But some were expressing indignation to one another: "Why has this fragrant oil been wasted?
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For this oil might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor." And they began to scold her.
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Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me.
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You always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have Me.
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She has done what she could; she has anointed My body in advance for burial.
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I assure you: Wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her."