Matthew 26:1-13

1 When Jesus finished saying all these things, he told his disciples,

2 "You know that the Passover will take place in two days. At that time the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."

3 Then the chief priests and the leaders of the people gathered in the palace of the chief priest Caiaphas.

4 They made plans to arrest Jesus in an underhanded way and to kill him.

5 But they said, "We shouldn't arrest him during the festival, or else there may be a riot among the people."

6 Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon, a man who had suffered from a skin disease.

7 While Jesus was sitting there, a woman went to him with a bottle of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head.

8 The disciples were irritated when they saw this. They asked, "Why did she waste it like this?

9 It could have been sold for a high price, and the money could have been given to the poor."

10 Since Jesus knew what was going on, he said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

11 You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me with you.

12 She poured this perfume on my body before it is placed in a tomb.

13 I can guarantee this truth: Wherever this Good News is spoken in the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."