Mark 14:3-9 (New Revised Standard)
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While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head.
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But some were there who said to one another in anger, "Why was the ointment wasted in this way?
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For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, b and the money given to the poor." And they scolded her.
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But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me.
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For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me.
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She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial.
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Truly I tell you, wherever the good news c is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her."
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a.
Mark 14:3 - The terms [leper] and [leprosy] can refer to several diseases
b.
Mark 14:5 - The denarius was the usual day's wage for a laborer
c.
Mark 14:9 - Or [gospel]