Matthew 26:1-9 ▼

1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,

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

3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

4 and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

5 But they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.”

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

7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

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

9 For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor.”