1. Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from the dead.
2. A dinner was prepared in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those who ate with him.
3. Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance.
4. But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray him, said,
5. “That perfume was worth a year’s wages. It should have been sold and the money given to the poor.”