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Mark 14:3-9 "Why was the ointment wasted in this way? NRSV


The Anointing at Bethany

Mark 14:3-9 While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment of his head.

But some where there who said to one another in anger,

Question in the Bible

"Why was the ointment wasted in this way?

For this ointment could of been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given given to the poor." And they scolded her.

Answer in the Bible

But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed  a good service for me.

For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me.

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

Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her."