The Passover of the Jews

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed his feet with her hair. But Judas Escariot, one of his disciples, he who was to betray him said, Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? This he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief as he used to take what was put into it. The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem so they took branches of palm trees and went