1. NOW the feast of the pasch, and of the Azymes was after two days; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him, and kill him.
2. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
3. And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
4. Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?