Mark 14:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

² for they said, ‘Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.’

The Anointing at Bethany

³ While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,^[a] 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 on his head. ⁴ But some were there who said to one another in anger, ‘Why was the ointment wasted in this way?