8. Now when the disciples saw it they were angry and said, "Why this waste?
9. This perfume could have been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor."
10. But Jesus knew what they were thinking. He said, "Why do you make trouble for the woman? She’s done a good thing for me.
11. You always have the poor with you, but you won’t always have me.
12. By pouring this perfume over my body she’s prepared me to be buried.
13. I tell you the truth that wherever in the whole world this good news is announced, what she’s done will also be told in memory of her."
14. Then one of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
15. and said, "What will you give me if I turn Jesus over to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.
16. From that time on he was looking for an opportunity to turn him in.
17. On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover meal?"