1. And it happened that, when Jesus had completed all these words, he said to his disciples,
2. "You know that after two days the Passover will begin, and the Son of man will be handed over to be crucified."
3. Then the leaders of the priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
4. And they took counsel so that by deceitfulness they might take hold of Jesus and kill him.
5. But they said, "Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people."
6. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,
7. a woman drew near to him, holding an alabaster box of precious ointment, and she poured it over his head while he was reclining at table.
8. But the disciples, seeing this, were indignant, saying: "What is the purpose of this waste?
9. For this could have been sold for a great deal, so as to be given to the poor."
10. But Jesus, knowing this, said to them: "Why are you bothering this woman? For she has done a good deed to me.
11. For the poor you will always have with you. But you will not always have me.
12. For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has prepared for my burial.
13. Amen I say to you, wherever this Gospel will be preached in the whole world, what she has done also shall be told, in memory of her."