1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2. You know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3. Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4. And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
5. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6. Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7. There came unto him a woman having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat to eat.
8. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9. For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10. When Jesus knew it, he said unto them,
11. For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always.
12. For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
13. Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, which this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.
14. Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,