Matthew 26:1-16

1Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples,

2“You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

3Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

4and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

5But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”

6And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,

7a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

8But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

9For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”

10But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.

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

12For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.

13Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

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

15and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

16So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.