Bible Verses About Anointing

I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.

With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.

And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).

And having seen it , his disciples were much displeased, saying, `To what purpose is this waste?

for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'

And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;

for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;

for she having put this ointment on my body--for my burial she did it .

and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,

and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

Therefore saith one of his disciples--Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up--

`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,