Bible Verses About Bethany: Jesus attends a feast in

Yeshua was in Beit-Anyah, at the home of Shim`on, the man who had had tzara'at.

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.

Yes! I tell you that throughout the whole world, wherever this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."

Six days before Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El‘azar lived, the man Yeshua had raised from the dead;

so they gave a dinner there in his honor. Marta served the meal, and El‘azar was among those at the table with him.

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.

You always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”

A large crowd of Judeans learned that he was there; and they came not only because of Yeshua, but also so that they could see El‘azar, whom he had raised from the dead.