John 12:1-7

1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those that sat at the table with him.

3 Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4 Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who should betray him,

5 Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarius and given to the poor?

6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and would take from what was put therein.

7 Therefore Jesus said, Let her alone; against the day of my burying she has kept this;