New American Standard Bible

Matthew 26:11-24 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

11. For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.

12. For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

13. Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

14. Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

15. and said, "What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?" And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

16. From then on he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.

17. Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?"

18. And He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."'"

19. The disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

20. Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

21. As they were eating, He said, "Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me."

22. Being deeply grieved, they each one began to say to Him, "Surely not I, Lord?"

23. And He answered, "He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me.

24. The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."