1. Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to take Him through treachery and put Him to death.
2. And they said, “Not at the festival, lest there shall be an uproar of the people.”
3. And while He was in Bĕyth Anyah in the house of Shim‛on the leper, and sitting at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of perfume, genuine nard, very costly. And breaking the flask she poured it on His head.
4. But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, and said, “Why was this perfume wasted?
5. “For it could have been sold for more than three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.
6. But יהושע said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.
7. “For you have the poor with you always, and you are able do good to them, whenever you wish. But you do not always have Me.
8. “What she had, she used. She took it beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.
9. “Truly, I say to you, wherever this Good News is proclaimed in all the world, what this woman did shall also be spoken of, to her remembrance.”
10. And Yehuḏah from Qerioth, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to deliver Him up to them.