1  Now the passover and the feast of unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him. 2  For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people. 3  And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head. 4  And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment? 5  for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her. 6  But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me; 7  for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always. 8  What she could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial. 9  And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this woman has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her. 10  And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them; 11  and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.