inished all these sayings, he
said to his disciples, (2)Ye know that after two days is the passover,
and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. (3)Then were the chief
priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in
the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas. (4)And they consulted
together, how they might seize Jesus by guile, and put him to death.
(5)But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there be a tumult among
the people.

(6)Now when Jesus was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
(7)there came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of very precious
aromatic ointment, and poured it upon his head as he sat at table.
(8)But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, For
what end is this waste? (9)For this ointment might have been sold for a
considerable sum, and given to the poor. (10)Then Jesus knowing it,
said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath performed a good
act upon me: (11)for the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have
not always: (12)for in pouring this odoriferous ointment on my body,
she hath done it for my burial. (13)Verily I say unto you, Wherever
this Gospel is preached through the whole world, what she hath done
shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.

(14)Then went one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, to the chief
priests, (15)and said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him
unto you? Then they placed before him thirty pieces of silver. (16)And
from that time he sought an opportunity to deliver him up to them.

(17)Then on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to
Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat
the passover? (18)And he said, Go into the city, unto such a man, and
say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand: I will keep the
passover with my disciples at thy house. (19)And his disciples did as
Jesus commanded them; and they made ready the passover. (20)And when
the evening was come, he sat down at table with the twelve. (21)And as
they were eating, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall
betray me. (22)And exceedingly grieved, they began to say to him every
one of them, Lord, am I the person? (23)But he answering said, He that
dippeth his hand with me into the dish, that man shall betray me.
(24)The Son of man indeed is departing, as it is written of him: but wo
to that man, by whom the Son of man is betrayed! well had it been for
that