11. You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
12. This woman poured perfume on my body to prepare me for burial.
13. I tell you the truth, wherever the Good News is preached in all the world, what this woman has done will be told, and people will remember her.”
14. Then one of the twelve apostles, Judas Iscariot, went to talk to the leading priests.
15. He said, “What will you pay me for giving Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty silver coins.
16. After that, Judas watched for the best time to turn Jesus in.
17. On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the followers came to Jesus. They said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover meal?”
18. Jesus answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: “The chosen time is near. I will have the Passover with my followers at your house.” ’ ”
19. The followers did what Jesus told them to do, and they prepared the Passover meal.