1. Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
2. For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.”
3. Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.
4. But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment?
5. It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her.