9. “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”
10. Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
11. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.
12. When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
13. Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
14. Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests
15. and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.
16. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
17. On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”