Matthew 26:1-13 ▼

1 AND it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,

2 Ye know that after two days is the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

3 Then were the chief priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas.

4 And they consulted together, how they might seize Jesus by guile, and put him to death.

5 But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there be a tumult among the people.

6 Now when Jesus was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 there came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of very precious aromatic ointment, and poured it upon his head as he sat at table.

8 But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, For what end is this waste?

9 For this ointment might have been sold for a considerable sum, and given to the poor.

10 Then Jesus knowing it, said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath performed a good act upon me:

11 for the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always:

12 for in pouring this odoriferous ointment on my body, she hath done it for my burial.

13 Verily I say unto you, Wherever this Gospel is preached through the whole world, what she hath done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.