2 And they said, “Not at the festival, lest there shall be an uproar of the people.”
3 And while He was in Bĕyth Anyah in the house of Shim‛on the leper, and sitting at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of perfume, genuine nard, very costly. And breaking the flask she poured it on His head.
4 But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, and said, “Why was this perfume wasted?
5 “For it could have been sold for more than three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.
6 But יהושע said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.
7 “For you have the poor with you always, and you are able do good to them, whenever you wish. But you do not always have Me.
8 “What she had, she used. She took it beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.