Mark 14:1-11

It  was two days before the Passover  and the Festival  of Unleavened Bread.  The chief priests and the scribes  were looking for a cunning  way to arrest Jesus and kill him.  “Not during the festival,” they said, “so that there won’t be a riot among the people.” While  he was in Bethany  at the house of Simon the leper,  , as he was reclining at the table,  a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.  But some were expressing indignation to one another: “Why has this perfume been wasted? For this perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii  , and given to the poor.”  And they began to scold her. Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing   for me. You always have the poor   with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.   She has done what she could; she has anointed my body   in advance for burial.   Truly I tell you,   wherever the gospel   is proclaimed in the whole world,   what she has done will also be told in memory of her.” Then  Judas Iscariot,  one of the Twelve,  went to the chief priests  to betray Jesus  to them. And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money.  So he started looking for a good opportunity to betray  him.

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