3 Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. While Jesus was eating, a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus' head.
4 Some of the people there became angry and said to one another, “What was the use of wasting the perfume?
5 It could have been sold for more than 300 silver coins and the money given to the poor!” And they criticized her harshly.
6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done a fine and beautiful thing for me.
7 You will always have poor people with you, and any time you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.
8 She did what she could; she poured perfume on my body to prepare it ahead of time for burial.
9 Now, I assure you that wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”