1: Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

2: There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

3: Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4: Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,

5: Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6: This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

7: Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

8: For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.