Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,2 because they kept saying, “This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there will be a riot among the people.” While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, there came a woman having a box of ointment of Spike nard, very costly, and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head. Irritated, some who were there asked one another, “Why was the perfume wasted like this? This perfume could have been sold for almost a year’s pay and the money given to the poor.” .” So they got extremely angry with her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me, because you’ll always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you won’t alway...