1. And it happened that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
2. “You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Man will be handed over in order to be crucified.”
3. Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
4. and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
5. But they were saying, “Not during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people.”
6. Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
7. a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured it out on his head while he was reclining at table.
8. And when the disciples saw it they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?