Mark 14:3-9
So Phil Robinson (in the facebook page of Richard Carrier):3 While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head. 4 But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way? 5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”
I would have a better interpretation.I suggest the alabaster jar symbolizes the temple of Capitoline Jupiter, either in Rome, or in the second century, present on the Aelia Capitolina, where a temple of Jupiter Capitolina was built atop the former Jewish temple of Jehovah.
The alabaster jar simbolizes the old temple of Jerusalem.
It was destroyed, too, with great dolor by the Jews (and surely by the followers of the Pillars of Jerusalem, allegorized by the 12 idiot disciples in Mark).
But Jesus says ''no problem''. The poor are the Judaizers, who entered en masse in the Pauline communities after the Fall of Jerusalem (the same reason that moved ''Mark'' to write his Gospel as reaction against their new second preaching between the gentiles, according to Tom Dykstra):
The mysterious woman prefigures the three women at Golgotha:For you always have the poor with you
She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial.
The head of Jesus, caput in Latin (and Golgotha is the place of the Cranium), anointed by the oil of the alabaster jar, represents the new Temple replacing the old Temple.
The disciples are rebels against the cruel fate (that required the destruction of the old temple) and they are also rebels against the pauline emphasis on the crucifixion as the end of the privilege of only the poor (Pillars).
...and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish