Awake, O north wind; and come, you south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at dinner, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of very precious spikenard; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching: Truly I say to you, that he shall make himself ready, and make them sit down to eat, and will come out and serve them.
Then said he also to him that invited him, When you make a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, nor your brothers, neither your kinfolk, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also invite you again, and a recompense be made to you.