1. Now it happened that when Yeshua had finished all these words, He said to His disciples,
2. “You know that Passover comes in two days, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be executed.”
3. Then the ruling kohanim and elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the kohen gadol named Caiaphas.
4. They plotted together in order that they might seize Yeshua by stealth and kill Him.
5. “But not during the festival,” they were saying, “so there won’t be a riot among the people.”
6. Now while Yeshua was in Bethany at the house of Simon ha-Metzora,
7. a woman came up to Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive oil. And she poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table.
8. But when the disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
9. It could have been sold for a lot, and the money given to the poor!”
10. But Yeshua, knowing this, said to them, “Why do you cause trouble for this woman? She’s done Me a mitzvah.
11. You always have the poor with you, but you won’t always have Me.
12. For when she poured this oil on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.
13. Amen, I tell you, wherever this Good News is proclaimed in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
14. Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judah of Kriot, went to the ruling kohanim
15. and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they weighed out thirty shekels of silver for him.