3 And [while] he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, [as] he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. [After] breaking the alabaster flask, she poured [it] out on his head.
4
But some were expressing indignation to one another: "Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?
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For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold her.
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But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.
7
For the poor you always have 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 beforehand} for burial.
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And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.
[f].
The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to scold")
[g].
Literally "she has anticipated to anoint my body"
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