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Matthew - ch 26 v 1 - 20
- It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,
- "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
- Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
- They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
- But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
- Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
- 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.
- But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
- For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor."
- However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.
- For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.
- For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
- 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."
- Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
- 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.
- From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
- 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?"
- 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."'"
- The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.
- Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
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