Mark 14:3-9
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard— very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying,“ Why has this ointment been wasted?For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.But Jesus said,“ Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
John 11:2-16
It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.The sisters therefore sent to him, saying,“ Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”But when Jesus heard it, he said,“ This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.Then after this he said to the disciples,“ Let’s go into Judea again.”The disciples asked him,“ Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”Jesus answered,“ Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”He said these things, and after that, he said to them,“ Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”The disciples therefore said,“ Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.So Jesus said to them plainly then,“ Lazarus is dead.I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples,“ Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”