1. Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;
2. for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people."
3. While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.
4. But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted?