1 Now after two days will be the Passover,

2 and the chief priests, and the elders of the people were gathered together, to the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;

3 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

4 But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among people.

5 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

6 there came to him a woman having an alabaster cruse of exceedingly precious ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat to eat.

7 But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

8 For this [ointment] might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

9 But Jesus perceiving it said to them, Why do you{} trouble the woman? For she has worked a good work on me.

10 For you{} always have the poor with you{}; but me you{} do not always have.

11 For in that she poured this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

12 Truly I say to you{}, Wherever this good news will be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.

13 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.