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?