RSV ~ Mark 14 v3 - 9

3 And while he was at Beth’any in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the jar and poured it over his head.

4 But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment thus wasted?

5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” And they reproached her.

6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.

9 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”