1. When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
2. “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
3. Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
4. and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
5. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”
6. Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
7. a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
8. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
9. For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.”