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Matthew - ch 26 v 1 - 20
- And when Jesus had come to the end of all these words, he said to his disciples,
- After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.
- Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
- And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
- But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.
- Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
- There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.
- But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
- For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
- But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.
- For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
- For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
- Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.
- Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,
- What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.
- And from that time he was watching for a chance to give him into their hands.
- Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?
- And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.
- And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.
- Now when evening was come, he was seated at table with the twelve disciples;
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