10. But Jesus, fully aware of this, said to them, Why do you bother the woman? She has done a noble (praiseworthy and beautiful) thing to Me.
11. For you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have Me. [Deut. 15:11.]
12. In pouring this perfume on My body she has done something to prepare Me for My burial.
13. Truly I tell you, wherever this good news (the Gospel) is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will be told also, in memory of her.
14. Then one of the Twelve [apostles], who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
15. And said, What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you? And they weighed out for and paid to him thirty pieces of silver [about twenty-one dollars and sixty cents]. [Exod. 21:32; Zech. 11:12.]
16. And from that moment he sought a fitting opportunity to betray Him.
17. Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread [Passover week], the disciples came to Jesus and said to Him, Where do You wish us to prepare for You to eat the Passover supper?
18. He said, Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, The Master says: My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.
19. And accordingly the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they made ready the Passover supper. [Deut. 16:5-8.]
20. When it was evening, He was reclining at table with the twelve disciples.
21. And as they were eating, He said, Solemnly I say to you, one of you will betray Me!
22. They were exceedingly pained and distressed and deeply hurt and sorrowful and began to say to Him one after another, Surely it cannot be I, Lord, can it?
23. He replied, He who has [just] dipped his hand in the same dish with Me will betray Me!