Bible Verses About Anointing: Symbolic, of Jesus

A woman who had an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume approached Yeshua while he was eating and began pouring it on his head.

When the talmidim saw it, they became very angry. "Why this waste?" they asked.

"This could have been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor."

But Yeshua, aware of what was going on, said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.

She poured this perfume on me to prepare my body for burial.

Miryam took a whole pint of pure oil of spikenard, which is very expensive, poured it on Yeshua’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of the talmidim, Y’hudah from K’riot, the one who was about to betray him, said,

“This perfume is worth a year’s wages! Why wasn’t it sold and the money given to the poor?”

Now he said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief — he was in charge of the common purse and used to steal from it.

Yeshua said, “Leave her alone! She kept this for the day of my burial.