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.