1
After two dayes folowed ester and the dayes of swete breed. And the hye prestes and the Scrybes sought meanes how they myght take hym by crafte and put him to deeth.
2
But they sayde: not in the feast daye leest eny busynes aryse amonge the people.
3
When he was in Bethania in the housse of Simon the leper even as he sate at meate ther came a woma hauynge an alablaster boxe of oyntment called narde that was pure and costly: and she brake the boxe and powred it on is heed.
4
And ther were some that were not content in them selves and sayde: what neded this waste of oyntment?
5
For it myght have bene soolde for more then thre hundred pens and bene geve vnto the poore. And they grudged agaynste hir.
6
And Iesus sayde: let hir be in reest why trouble ye hir? She hath done a good worke on me.