7. a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
8. But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
9. For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
10. However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.
11. For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.
12. For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
13. Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
14. Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
15. and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
16. From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
17. Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
18. He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”