2 “But not during the festival,” they were saying, “so there won’t be a riot among the people.”
3 And while Yeshua was in Bethany at the house of Simon ha-Metzora, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive oil of pure nard. Breaking open the jar, she poured it over His head.
4 But some got angry and said among themselves, “Why was this fragrant oil wasted?
5 It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor!” And they kept scolding her.
6 But Yeshua said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She’s done Me a mitzvah.
7 For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want; but you won’t always have Me.
8 She did what she could—she came beforehand to anoint My body for burial.