1
Aftertwodayswas the feast of the passover,andof unleavened bread:and the chief priestsand the scribessoughthow they might takehimbycraft, and put him to death.
2
But they said, Noton the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3
Andbeing*inBethanyin the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a womanhaving an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard[a]veryprecious;and she brake the box, and poured it onhishead.
4
And there weresome that had indignationwithinthemselves,andsaid, Why*wasthiswaste of the ointmentmade?
5
Foritmight have been sold for more than three hundredpence,and have been given to the poor.And they murmured againsther.
6
AndJesussaid, Letheralone; why trouble ye*her? she hath wrought a goodworkonme.