1
Pask and the feast of therf loaves was after two days. And the high priests [And the highest priests] and the scribes sought, how they should hold him with guile, and slay [him].
2
But they said, Not in the feast day, lest peradventure a noise were made among the people.
3
And when he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon leprous, and rested, a woman came, that had a box of alabaster of precious ointment spikenard; and when the box of alabaster was broken, she poured it on his head. [+And when he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon leprous, and sat at the meat, a woman came, having a box of alabaster of precious ointment spikenard; and the box broken, she poured it out upon his head.]
4
But there were some that bare it heavily within themselves, and said, Whereto is this loss of ointment made?
5
For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and be given to poor men. And they grumbled against her [And they groaned against her].
6
But Jesus said, Suffer ye her; what be ye heavy to her? she hath wrought a good work in [into] me.