Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus
was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there in
the house of Simon the leper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of
them that sat at meat with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of
pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his
feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,
"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given
to the poor?"
Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was
a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
Jesus therefore said, "Suffer her to keep it against the day of my
burying. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not
always. She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body
beforehand for the burying. And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the
gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which
this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."
The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and
they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus
also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests took
counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by
reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.