4. There were some who were indignant. “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?
5. It could have been sold for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to the poor.” They were infuriated with her.
6. Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why do you make trouble for her? She has done a good thing for me.
7. The poor you will always have with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them, but you will not always have me.
8. She has done what she could. She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.
9. Amen, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed to the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
10. Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went off to the chief priests to hand him over to them.
11. When they heard him they were pleased and promised to pay him money. Then he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.