1. Two days after was the passover and the days of unleavened bread; and the princes of the priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, that they might kill him.
2. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3. And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, sitting at the table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and breaking the alabaster, she poured it over his head.
4. And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5. For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarius and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.