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.
9 I can guarantee this truth: Wherever the Good News is spoken in the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
10 Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus.