7. You always have the poor with you; and whenever you want, you can do something good for them. But you won’t always have me.
8. She has done what she could. She has anointed my body ahead of time for burial.
9. I tell you the truth that, wherever in the whole world the good news is announced, what she’s done will also be told in memory of her."
10. Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to give Jesus up to them.
11. When they heard it, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he started looking for an opportunity to turn him in.
12. On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, the disciples said to Jesus, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover meal?"
13. He sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city. A man carrying a water jar will meet you. Follow him.
14. Wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The teacher asks, "Where is my guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?" ’
15. He will show you a large room upstairs already furnished. Prepare for us there."
16. The disciples left, came into the city, found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.
17. That evening, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.
18. During the meal, Jesus said, "I assure you that one of you will betray me—someone eating with me."
19. Deeply saddened, they asked him, one by one, "It’s not me, is it?"
20. Jesus answered, "It’s one of the Twelve, one who is dipping bread with me into this bowl.
21. The Human One goes to his death just as it is written about him. But how terrible it is for that person who betrays the Human One! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."
22. While they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."