Bible Verses About Anointing

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.

And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?

For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor.

And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me.

For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.

And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.