for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at
midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: lest coming
suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch."




CHAPTER XIV

DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread:
and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by
craft, and put him to death. But they said, "Not on the feast day,
lest there be an uproar of the people."

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon 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. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and
said, "Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been
sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the
poor." And they murmured against her.

And Jesus said, "Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a
good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever
ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done
what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached