1. And it came to be, when יהושע ended all these words, He said to His taught ones,
2. “You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Aḏam is to be delivered up to be impaled.”
3. Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people came together at the court of the high priest, who was called Qayapha,
4. and plotted to seize יהושע by trickery and kill Him.
5. But they said, “Not at the festival lest there be an uproar among the people.”
6. And when יהושע was in Bĕyth Anyah at the house of Shim‛on the leper,
7. a woman came to Him, having an alabaster flask of costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.
8. And when His taught ones saw it, they were much displeased saying, “To what purpose is this waste?
9. “For this perfume could have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10. However, when יהושע noticed it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work toward Me.
11. “For you always have the poor with you, but Me you do not have always.