Matthew 26:1-13

1 When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,

2 "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

3 Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,

4 and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.

5 But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."

6 Now when Jesus was come to Bethany and was at the house of Simon the Leper,

7 a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.

8 "Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples;

9 "for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor."

10 But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.

11 The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.

12 In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

13 In solemn truth I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News shall be proclaimed, this deed of hers shall be spoken of in memory of her."