Bible text description: [6]

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, [7]

There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. [8]

But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? [9]

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. [10]

When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. [11]

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. [12]

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. [13]

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.