3 Then the chief priests and the leaders of the people gathered in the palace of the chief priest Caiaphas.
4 They made plans to arrest Jesus in an underhanded way and to kill him.
5 But they said, “We shouldn’t arrest him during the festival, or else there may be a riot among the people.”
6 Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon, a man who had suffered from a skin disease.
7 While Jesus was sitting there, a woman went to him with a bottle of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head.
8 The disciples were irritated when they saw this. They asked, “Why did she waste it like this?
9 It could have been sold for a high price, and the money could have been given to the poor.”