1. The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days’ time. So the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to death.
2. They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.”
3. When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.
4. There were some who were indignant. “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?
5. It could have been sold for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to the poor.” They were infuriated with her.