“a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 26 contains 75 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.