1It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:
2But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.
3And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.
4But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
5We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
6But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
7The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
