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?
5. For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her.