3 Jesus was eating in Bethany at the home of Simon, who once had leprosy, when a woman came in with a very expensive bottle of sweet-smelling perfume. After breaking it open, she poured the perfume on Jesus' head.
4 This made some of the guests angry, and they complained, “Why such a waste?
5 We could have sold this perfume for more than three hundred silver coins and given the money to the poor!” So they started saying cruel things to the woman.
6 But Jesus said:Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
7 You will always have the poor with you. And whenever you want to, you can give to them. But you won't always have me here with you.
8 She has done all she could by pouring perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.
9 You may be sure that wherever the good news is told all over the world, people will remember what she has done. And they will tell others.