3. And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.
4. But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: "What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?
5. For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor." And they murmured against her.
6. But Jesus said: "Permit her. What is the reason that you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me.
7. For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always.
8. But she has done what she could. She has arrived in advance to anoint my body for burial.
9. Amen I say to you, wherever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the entire world, the things she has done also shall be told, in memory of her."