I've heard a few sermons that said the effect of the perfume might have lasted until his crucifixion, and might literally have been the one pleasant part of his

I've heard a few sermons that said the effect of the perfume might have lasted until his crucifixion, and might literally have been the one pleasant part of his execution and death. The other part, if you read the scriptures closely, Jesus generally treated the individual as a person first, and a problem (win) second, so the disciples being dicks to her wasn't something he'd be cool with. And he tended not to correct the individual in a group setting.