Mark 14:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.”

The Anointing at Bethany

³ And while he was at Bethany 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?