Matthew 26:1-13 ▼

1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples:

2 You know that after two days the passover is kept, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.

3 Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people met together at the palace of the chief priest, who was called Caiaphas.

4 And they consulted together that they might take Jesus by craft and kill him.

5 But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.

6 When Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 there came to him a woman who had an alabaster box of very costly ointment; and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

8 But when his disciples saw it, they were displeased, and said: For what purpose was this waste?

9 For this could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

10 Jesus perceived it, and said to them: Why do you trouble the woman? For she has performed a good work upon me.

11 For you have the poor always with you, but me you have not always.

12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

13 Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, this also which she has done shall be told for a memorial of her.