LEB(i)
1 Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after* arresting him by stealth, they could kill him.*
2 For they said, "Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people."
3 And while* he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as* he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After* breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it* out on his head.
4 But some were expressing indignation to one another:* "Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?
5 For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold* her.
6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.
7 For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.
8 She has done what she could; ⌊she has anointed my body beforehand⌋* for burial.
9 And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.
11 And when* they heard this,* they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking* how he could betray him conveniently.
12 And on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and* prepare, so that you can eat the Passover?"
13 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,
14 and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?" '
15 And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished* and* ready, and prepare for us there."