Matthew 26:1-9 ▼

1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples:

2 You know that after two days the passover is kept, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.

3 Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people met together at the palace of the chief priest, who was called Caiaphas.

4 And they consulted together that they might take Jesus by craft and kill him.

5 But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.

6 When Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 there came to him a woman who had an alabaster box of very costly ointment; and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

8 But when his disciples saw it, they were displeased, and said: For what purpose was this waste?

9 For this could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.