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For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
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But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.
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For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
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For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
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Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.
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Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,
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What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.
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And from that time he was watching for a chance to give him into their hands.
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Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?
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And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.
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And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.