Matthew 26:6-13

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

6 ¹Now when Jesus was at ²Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,^[a]

7 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

8 And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?

9 For this could have been sold for a large sum and ³given to the poor."

10 But ⁴Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

11 For ⁵you always have the poor with you, but ⁶you will not always have me.

12 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it ⁷to prepare me for burial.

13 Truly, I say to you, wherever ⁸this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told ⁹in memory of her."

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 6-13, see Mark 14:3-9; John 12:1-8; [Luke 7:37-39]
• 2. Matthew 21:17; John 11:18
• 3. [John 13:29]
• 4. Matthew 16:8
• 5. Deuteronomy 15:11
• 6. Matthew 9:15; See John 7:33
• 7. John 19:40
• 8. [Matthew 24:14]
• 9. Acts 10:4

Footnotes

• [a]. Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13