1. And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach completed all these divrei torah, he said to his talmidim,
2. You know, that after two days, there is Pesach, and the Ben HaAdam is handed over for talui al HaEtz (DEVARIM 21:23; DANIEL 7:13).
3. Then the Rashei Hakohanim and the Ziknei haAm (Elders of the People) were assembled in the courtyard of the residence of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest), the one being called Caiapha.
4. And they planned to arrest Yeshoshua by a trap and kill him.
5. But they were saying, Not during the Chag (Feast), lest a riot break out among the am haaretz. [T.N. A careful reading of this book shows that the Moshiach pointed to the One in Ps 110:1, Dan 7:13, and Isa 53 and Ps 118:22 and declared that the same person is being referred to in all these Scriptures: Moshiach Adoneinu.]
6. And, while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in Beit-Anyah in the bais of Shimon the leper,
7. An isha approached him with an alabaster flask of costly perfume, and she poured it out on Moshiach's rosh, as he sat bimesibba (reclining at tish [table]).
8. And having seen this, Moshiach's talmidim were angry, saying, For what is this waste?