8. This woman did the only thing she could do for me. She poured perfume on my body before I die to prepare it for burial.
9. The Good News will be told to people all over the world. And I can assure you that everywhere the Good News is told, the story of what this woman did will also be told, and people will remember her.”
10. Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, went to talk to the leading priests about handing Jesus over to them.
11. They were very happy about this, and they promised to pay him. So he waited for the best time to hand Jesus over to them.
12. It was now the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread—the day the lambs were killed for the Passover. Jesus’ followers came to him and said, “We will go and prepare everything for you to eat the Passover meal. Where do you want us to have the meal?”
13. Jesus sent two of his followers into the city. He said to them, “Go into the city. You will see a man carrying a jar of water. He will come to you. Follow him.
14. He will go into a house. Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks that you show us the room where he and his followers can eat the Passover meal.’
15. The owner will show you a large room upstairs that is ready for us. Prepare the meal for us there.”
16. So the followers left and went into the city. Everything happened the way Jesus said. So the followers prepared the Passover meal.
17. In the evening Jesus went to that house with the twelve apostles.
18. While they were all at the table eating, he said, “Believe me when I say that one of you will hand me over to my enemies—one of you eating with me now.”
19. The followers were very sad to hear this. Each one said to Jesus, “Surely I am not the one!”
20. Jesus answered, “It is one of you twelve—the one who is dipping his bread in the same bowl with me.
21. The Son of Man will suffer what the Scriptures say will happen to him. But it will be very bad for the one who hands over the Son of Man to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”