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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 is the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
- Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
- And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
- But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
- Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
- There came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he sat at table.
- But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
- For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
- When Jesus understood it, he said to them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
- For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
- Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, which this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
- Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
- And said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
- And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
- Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
- And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
- And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
- Now when the evening was come, he sat down with the twelve.
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