8. But when his disciples saw this, they became angry and complained, “Why such a waste?
9. We could have sold this perfume for a lot of money and given it to the poor.”
10. Jesus knew what they were thinking, and he said:Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
11. You will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me.
12. She has poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.
13. You may be sure that wherever the good news is told all over the world, people will remember what she has done. And they will tell others.
14. Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples. He went to the chief priests
15. and asked, “How much will you give me if I help you arrest Jesus?” They paid Judas thirty silver coins,
16. and from then on he started looking for a good chance to betray Jesus.
17. On the first day of the Festival of Thin Bread, Jesus' disciples came to him and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal?”
18. Jesus told them to go to a certain man in the city and tell him, “Our teacher says, ‘My time has come! I want to eat the Passover meal with my disciples in your home.’ ”
19. They did as Jesus told them and prepared the meal.
20-21. When Jesus was eating with his twelve disciples that evening, he said, “One of you will hand me over to my enemies.”
22. The disciples were very sad, and each one said to Jesus, “Lord, you can't mean me!”
23. He answered, “One of you men who has eaten with me from this dish will betray me.
24. The Son of Man will die, as the Scriptures say. But it's going to be terrible for the one who betrays me! That man would be better off if he had never been born.”