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Matthew - ch 26 v 1 - 20
- And it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
- Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.
- Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,
- and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;
- but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.
- But Jesus being in Bethany, in Simon the leper's house,
- a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.
- But the disciples seeing it became indignant, saying, To what end was this waste?
- for this might have been sold for much and been given to the poor.
- But Jesus knowing it said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.
- For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
- For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.
- Verily I say to you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
- Then one of the twelve, he who was called Judas Iscariote, went to the chief priests
- and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.
- And from that time he sought a good opportunity that he might deliver him up.
- Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
- And he said, Go into the city unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near, I will keep the passover in thy house with my disciples.
- And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the passover.
- And when the evening was come he lay down at table with the twelve.
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