2 "But not during the Feast," they said. "The people may stir up trouble."
3 Jesus was in Bethany. He was at the table in the home of a man named Simon, who had a skin disease. A woman came with a special sealed jar of very expensive perfume. It was made out of pure nard. She broke the jar open and poured the perfume on Jesus' head.
4 Some of the people there became angry. They said to one another, "Why waste this perfume?
5 It could have been sold for more than a year's pay. The money could have been given to poor people." So they found fault with the woman.
6 "Leave her alone," Jesus said. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
7 You will always have poor people with you. You can help them any time you want to. But you will not always have me.
8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body to prepare me to be buried.