2. and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'
3. And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;
4. and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?
5. for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.
6. And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;
7. for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;
8. what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.
9. Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of--for a memorial of her.'
10. And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,