Matthew 26:1-13

The Plot Against Jesus

1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,

2 “As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

4 and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.

5 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,

7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.

8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked.

9 “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

11 The poor you will always have with you,^[a] but you will not always have me.

12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

13 Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

Cross References

• 1. S Matthew 7:28
• 2. S John 11:55; John 13:1
• 3. Psalms 2:2
• 4. ver 57; Luke 3:2; John 11:47-53; John 18:13,14,24,28; Acts 4:6
• 5. S Matthew 12:14
• 6. Matthew 27:24
• 7. S Matthew 21:17
• 8. Deuteronomy 15:11
• 9. John 19:40

Footnotes

• [a] See Deut. 15:11.