Matthew 26:6-16

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

6 ¹Now when Jesus was at ²Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,^[a]

7 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

8 And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?

9 For this could have been sold for a large sum and ³given to the poor."

10 But ⁴Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

11 For ⁵you always have the poor with you, but ⁶you will not always have me.

12 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it ⁷to prepare me for burial.

13 Truly, I say to you, wherever ⁸this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told ⁹in memory of her."

Judas to Betray Jesus

14 ¹⁰Then one of the twelve, whose name was ¹¹Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

15 and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they ¹²paid him ¹³thirty pieces of silver.

16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity ¹⁴to betray him.