Matthew 26:1-13 ▼

1 And when Jesus had finished these discourses, He said to his disciples,

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

3 Now the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people were then assembled together into the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas:

4 and were consulting how they might take Jesus by treachery and put Him to death.

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

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

7 there came to Him a woman with an alabaster- box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as He was at table:

8 but when his disciples saw it, they were some of them provoked at it, and said, Wherefore is this waste?

9 for this ointment might have been sold for a great deal of money, and given to the poor.

10 But Jesus, knowing what passed, said to them, Why do ye give the woman uneasiness? for she has done a good office to me:

11 (seeing ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always:) for in pouring this ointment on my body,

12 she has embalmed me for my burial.

13 Verily I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached, in the whole world, what she hath done shall also be spoken of for a memorial of her.