Matthew 26:1-13 ▼

1 When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples,

2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion.”

3 At that time the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the courtyard of the high priest named Caiaphas;

4 and they plotted together to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

5 But they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people.”

6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the Leper,

7 a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume, and she poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table.

8 But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, “Why this waste?

9 For this perfume could have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.”

10 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you bothering the woman? For she has done a good deed for Me.

11 For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.

12 For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

13 Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”