Matthew 26:1-13 ▼

1 And it came to passe, when Iesus had finished all these sayinges, he sayde vnto his disciples:

2 Ye knowe, yt after two dayes is ye feast of Passouer, and the sonne of man is betrayed, to be crucified.

3 Then assembled together the chiefe priestes, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, vnto the palace of the hye prieste, which was called Caiaphas:

4 And helde a councell, that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kyll hym.

5 But they sayde: Not on the feast day lest there be an vprore among ye people.

6 When Iesus was in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came vnto him a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of precious oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the boorde.

8 But when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying: to what purpose is this waste?

9 This oyntment might haue ben well solde, and geuen to the poore.

10 When Iesus vnderstode that, he saide vnto them: Why trouble ye the woma? for she hath wrought a good worke vppon me.

11 For ye haue the poore alwayes with you: but me shall ye not haue alwayes.

12 For in that she hath cast this oyntment on my body, she dyd it to bury me.

13 Ueryly I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospell shalbe preached in the world, there shall also this that she hath done, be tolde for a memoriall of her.