Thomson(i)
1 Now after two days was the passover, and the festival of unleavened bread. And the chief priests, and the Scribes were contriving how they might seize him by surprise, and put him to death.
2 And they said, Not at the festival; lest there be a tumult among the people.
3 And he being at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table a woman came with an alabaster phial of balsam; of pure unadulterated spikenard, which is very costly, and shaking the phial, she poured out of it on his head.
4 At which some expressed indignation, saying, Why is this waste of the balsam?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred deniars, and given to the poor. And as they were restraining her,
6 Jesus said, Let her alone. Why do ye trouble her? She hath done a good work for me.
7 For you have the poor always with you and can, when you please, do them good; but me you have not always.
8 She hath done what she could. She hath come beforehand to anoint my body for its embalment.
9 Verily I say to you, In whatever quarter of the world these glad tidings are proclaimed, what this woman hath done will be mentioned to her honour.
10 Upon this, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, in order to deliver him up to them.
11 And when they heard, they rejoiced exceedingly, and promised to give him money. So he sought a favourable opportunity to deliver him up.
12 And on the first day of the festival of unleavened bread, the day when the paschal lamb was to be killed, his disciples said to him, Where wouldst thou have us go and prepare for thine eating the paschal lamb.
13 Thereupon he despatched two of his disciples, saying to them, Go to the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.
14 And wherever he shall enter, say to the master of the house, The teacher saith, Where is the dining room in which I may eat the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will shew you a large upper room, ready furnished. Make preparation for us there.