1. Now the feast of Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days away. And the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, were seeking a means by which they might deceitfully seize him and kill him.
2. But they said, "Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people."
3. And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.
4. But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: "What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?