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Mark 14:3-9 "Why was the ointment thus wasted? RSV


Mark 14:3-9 And while he was at Beth'a-ny in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the jar and poured it over his head.

But there were some who said to themselves indignantly,

Question in the Bible

"Why was the ointment thus wasted?

For the ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." And they reproached her.

Answer in the Bible

But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.

And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."