5. But they said, “Not at the festival lest there be an uproar among the people.”
6. And when יהושע was in Bĕyth Anyah at the house of Shim‛on the leper,
7. a woman came to Him, having an alabaster flask of costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.
8. And when His taught ones saw it, they were much displeased saying, “To what purpose is this waste?
9. “For this perfume could have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10. However, when יהושע noticed it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work toward Me.
11. “For you always have the poor with you, but Me you do not have always.