Mark 14:2-4

Good News Translation

² “We must not do it during the festival,” they said, “or the people might riot.”

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany^(A)

^3 (B)Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. While Jesus was eating, a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus' head. ⁴ Some of the people there became angry and said to one another, “What was the use of wasting the perfume?