3 Then the leading priests and the elders had a meeting at the palace of the high priest, named Caiaphas.
4 At the meeting, they planned to set a trap to arrest Jesus and kill him.
5 But they said, “We must not do it during the feast, because the people might cause a riot.”
6 Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, who had a skin disease.
7 While Jesus was there, a woman approached him with an alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. She poured this perfume on Jesus’ head while he was eating.
8 His followers were upset when they saw the woman do this. They asked, “Why waste that perfume?
9 It could have been sold for a great deal of money and the money given to the poor.”