Mark 14:1-6

1 It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him;

2 for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people."

3 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.

4 But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, "Why was the ointment thus wasted?

5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." And they reproached her.

6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.