Anderson(i)
1 After two days was the passover and the feast of unleavened bread; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and kill him.
2 But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.
3 And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he reclined at table, there came a woman that had an alabaster box of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And some of them were displeased within themselves, and said: For what purpose was this waste of the ointment?
5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 But Jesus said: Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good work on me.
7 For you have the poor with you always; and whenever you choose, you can do them good; but me you have not always.
8 She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for its burial.
9 Verily I say to you, wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also which she has done shall be told, for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him up to them.
11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him up.
12 And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said to him: Where dost thou wish that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
13 And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them: Go into the city, and there will meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water;
14 follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house: The Teacher says, "Where is the room in which I may eat the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and made ready; there make ready for us.