# Connecting Statement:

This begins the account of a woman pouring expensive oil on Jesus before his death.

# Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main story line. Here Matthew starts to tell a new part of the story.

# Simon the leper

It is implied that this is a man whom Jesus had healed from leprosy. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])