Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Matthew 26:9-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

9. For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

10. And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

11. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

12. For she in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial.

13. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memory of her.

14. Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests,

15. And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.

16. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.