Matthew 26:1-22 ▼

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.

14 Then one of the twelue, called Iudas Iscariot, wet vnto ye chiefe priestes,

15 And sayde vnto them: What wyll ye geue me, and I wyll delyuer hym vnto you? And they appoynted vnto hym thirtie peeces of syluer.

16 And from that tyme foorth, he sought oportunitie to betray hym.

17 The first day of sweete bread, the disciples came to Iesus, saying vnto him: Where wylt thou that we prepare for thee, to eate the Passouer?

18 And he saide: Go into the citie, to such a man, and say vnto hym, the maister sayth, my tyme is at hand, I wyll kepe the Passouer at thy house, with my disciples.

19 And the disciples dyd as Iesus had appoynted them: and they made redye the Passouer.

20 When the euen was come, he sate downe with the twelue.

21 And as they dyd eate, he sayde: Ueryly I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me.

22 And they were exceadyng sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vn hym, Lorde is it I?