2
for they said, “Not during the feast,
1lest there be an uproar from the people. ”
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
3 2And while he was at
3Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
4
There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?
5
For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and
4given to the poor. ” And they
5scolded her.
6
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
7
For
6you always have the poor with you, and whenever
7you want, you can do good for them. But
8you will not always have me.
8
9She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand
10for burial.
9
And truly, I say to you, wherever
11the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told
12in memory of her. ”
Judas to Betray Jesus
10 13Then
14Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve,
15went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.
11
And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to
16betray him.
The Passover with the Disciples
12 17And on
18the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they
19sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover? ”