Bible Verses About Bethany: Jesus attends a feast in

And when Iesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

There came vnto him a woman, which had a boxe of very costly oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the table.

And when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying, What needed this waste?

For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.

And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? for shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.

For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.

For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.

Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall bee preached throughout all the worlde, there shall also this that shee hath done, be spoken of for a memoriall of her.

Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passeouer, came to Bethania, where Lazarus was, who died, whom he had raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.

Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.

Then said one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which should betray him:

Why was not this oyntment sold for three hundreth pence, and giuen to the poore?

Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.

Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.

For the poore alwayes yee haue with you, but me ye shall not haue alwayes.

Then much people of the Iewes knewe that hee was there: and they came, not for Iesus sake onely, but that they might see Lazarus also, whome he had raysed from the dead.