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When Jesus had finished teaching all these things, he said to his disciples,
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"In two days, as you know, it will be the Passover Festival, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."
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Then the chief priests and the elders met together in the palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest,
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and made plans to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.
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"We must not do it during the festival," they said, "or the people will riot."
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Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease.
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While Jesus was eating, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar filled with an expensive perfume, which she poured on his head.
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The disciples saw this and became angry. "Why all this waste?" they asked.
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"This perfume could have been sold for a large amount and the money given to the poor!"
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Jesus knew what they were saying, and so he said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? It is a fine and beautiful thing that she has done for me.
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You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.
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What she did was to pour this perfume on my body to get me ready for burial.
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Now, I assure you that wherever this gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."