And the scribes and chief kohanim heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his teaching.
After two days was the Feast of the Passover, and of Matzah: and the chief kohanim and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
And being in Beit-Anyah in the house of Shimon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.