1. Now it was two days before Passover and the Feast of Matzah. The ruling kohanim and Torah scholars were searching for a way to grab Yeshua by stealth and kill Him.
2. “But not during the festival,” they were saying, “so there won’t be a riot among the people.”
3. And while Yeshua was in Bethany at the house of Simon ha-Metzora, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive oil of pure nard. Breaking open the jar, she poured it over His head.
4. But some got angry and said among themselves, “Why was this fragrant oil wasted?
5. It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor!” And they kept scolding her.
6. But Yeshua said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She’s done Me a mitzvah.
7. For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want; but you won’t always have Me.