16 Bible Verses about Ointment

Then they returned, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the Commandment.

a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.

Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head.

And there was a woman in the town who was a notorious sinner. Having learnt that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house she brought a flask of perfume,

But, whenever you fast, pour perfume on your hair and wash your face,

No oil did you pour even on my head; but she has poured perfume upon my feet.

In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, in order to come and anoint His body.

And, on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared.

Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds. Taking down the body they wrapped it in linen cloths along with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish mode of preparing for burial.

"Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples; "for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor."

But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted? For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her.

"Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money given to the poor?"

He went to him, and dressed his wounds with oil and wine and bound them up. Then placing him on his own mule he brought him to an inn, where he bestowed every care on him.