1. And it happened that, when Jesus had completed all these words, he said to his disciples,
2. "You know that after two days the Passover will begin, and the Son of man will be handed over to be crucified."
3. Then the leaders of the priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
4. And they took counsel so that by deceitfulness they might take hold of Jesus and kill him.
5. But they said, "Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people."
6. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,
7. a woman drew near to him, holding an alabaster box of precious ointment, and she poured it over his head while he was reclining at table.
8. But the disciples, seeing this, were indignant, saying: "What is the purpose of this waste?