And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; 'and' she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.
And whanne he was at Betanye, in þe hous of Symount leprous, and restide, a womman cam, þat hadde a boxe of alabastre of precious oynement spikenard; and whanne þe boxe of alabastre was brokun, sche helde it on his heed.