1 Accordingly יהושע, six days before the Passover, came to Bĕyth Anyah, where El‛azar was, who had died, whom He raised from the dead.
2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha served, while El‛azar was one of those who sat at the table with Him.
3 Then Miryam took a pound of costly perfume of nard, anointed the feet of יהושע, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 Then one of His taught ones, Yehuḏah from Qerioth, son of Shim‛on, who was about to deliver Him up, said,
5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor?”
6 And he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and he used to take what was put in it.
7 יהושע then said, “Let her alone, she has kept this for the day of My burial.