Matthew 26:9-19

9 For this could have been sold for a large sum and ¹given to the poor."

10 But ²Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

11 For ³you always have the poor with you, but ⁴you will not always have me.

12 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it ⁵to prepare me for burial.

13 Truly, I say to you, wherever ⁶this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told ⁷in memory of her."

Judas to Betray Jesus

14 ⁸Then one of the twelve, whose name was ⁹Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

15 and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they ¹⁰paid him ¹¹thirty pieces of silver.

16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity ¹²to betray him.

The Passover with the Disciples

17 ¹³Now on ¹⁴the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

18 He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ¹⁵'The Teacher says, ¹⁶My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'"

19 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.