4. and took counsel that they might take Jesus by guile and kill him.
5. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6. Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7. a woman came unto him having an alabaster box of very precious ointment and poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
8. But when his disciples saw it, they became indignant, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9. For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.