ven, or at
midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: lest coming
suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch."

CHAPTER XIV

DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread:
and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by
craft, and put him to death. But they said, "Not on the feast day,
lest there be an uproar of the people."

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at
meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of
spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his
head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and
said, "Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been
sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the
poor." And they murmured against her.

And Jesus said, "Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a
good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever
ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done
what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached
throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be
spoken of for a memorial of her."

And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to
betray him unto them. And when they heard it, they were glad, and
promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently
betray him.

And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover,
his disciples said unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and prepare
that thou mayest eat the passover?" And he sendeth forth two of his
disciples, and saith unto them:

"Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher
of water: follow him. And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the
good man of the house, 'The Master saith, "Where is the guestchamber,
where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"' And he will shew
you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us."

And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he
had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And in the
evening he cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus
said:

"Verily I say unto you, one of you which eateth w