[3] 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 his head. [4] And some that had indignation within themselves, Why this waste of the ointment made? [5] For might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.