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For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor."
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But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.
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For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always.
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For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.
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Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her."
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Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
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and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
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So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.
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Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?"
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And He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples." ' "
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So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.