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While Jesus was eating dinner in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came into the house carrying an alabaster flask filled with a precious, sweet-smelling ointment made from spikenard. She came to Jesus, broke the jar, and gently poured out the perfume onto His head.

Some of those around the table were troubled by this and grumbled to each other.

Dinner Guests: Why did she waste this precious ointment? We could have sold this ointment for almost a year’s wages,[a] and the money could have gone to the poor!

Their private concerns turned to public criticism against her.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:5 Literally, more than 300 denarii, Roman coins

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