Mar 14:3-9, Joh 12:1-8 | ISV | STEP | A Woman Anoints Jesus’ Body for Burial While Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper and sitting at the table, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Mark 14:3-9

3 A Woman Anoints Jesus’ Body for Burial Matthew 26:6-13; John 12:1-8While Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. he} was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper and sitting at the table, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.Matt 26:6; Luke 7:37; John 12:1, 3 4 Some who were there said to one another in irritation, “Why was the perfume wasted like this? 5 This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii ^{▼▼A denarius was the average day's wage for a laborer.} and the money ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks the money} given to the destitute.” So they got extremely angry with her.

6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me. 7 For you will always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you will not always have me.Deut 15:11 8 She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

John 12:1-8

1 Mary Anoints Jesus Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, ^{▼▼Lit. was} the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.John 11:1, 43 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.Matt 26:6; Mark 14:3 3 Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus’ feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.Luke 10:38-39; John 11:2

4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, said, 5 “Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii ^{▼▼Three hundred denarii was about a year's wages for a laborer.} and the money ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks the money} given to the destitute?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.John 13:29

7 Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For you will always have the destitute with you, but you will not always have me.”Matt 26:11; Mark 14:7