John 11:53–12:3

⁵³So from that day on they plotted to kill him.^{g 54}Jesus therefore no longer walked openly^h among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness,ⁱ to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Jewish Passover^j was near, and many went up to Jerusalem^k from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. ⁵⁶They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple,^l “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival,^m will he?” ⁵⁷The chief priestsⁿ and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him.

THE ANOINTING AT BETHANY

12Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany^o where Lazarus^A was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead.^{p 2}So^q they gave a dinner for him there; Martha^r was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him. ³Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair.^s So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.