Matthew 26:1-13

1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he said to his disciples:

2 You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.

3 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:

4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

5 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.

6 And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.

8 And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?

9 For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor.

10 And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me.

11 For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

12 For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

13 Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her.