2 However, they said, “We shouldn’t arrest him during the festival, or else there will be a riot among the people.”
3 Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon, a man who had suffered from a skin disease. While Jesus was sitting there, a woman went to him. She had a bottle of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She opened the bottle and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some who were there were irritated and said to one another, “Why was the perfume wasted like this?
5 This perfume could have been sold for a high price, and the money could have been given to the poor.” So they said some very unkind things to her.
6 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 can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have me with you.
8 She did what she could. She came to pour perfume on my body before it is placed in a tomb.