Mark 14:3-9 Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head. ⁴ This angered some of those present. "What was the use of wasting perfume like this? ⁵ This perfume might have been sold for over three hundred shillings, and the poor might have got that." So they upbraided her. ⁶ But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. ⁷ The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me. ⁸ She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial. ⁹ I tell you truly, wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."