3. At that time the chief priests and the nation's leaders were meeting at the home of Caiaphas the high priest.
4. They secretly planned to have Jesus arrested and put to death.
5. But they said, “We must not do it during Passover, because the people will riot.”
6. Jesus was in the town of Bethany, eating at the home of Simon, who had leprosy.
7. A woman came in with a bottle of expensive perfume and poured it on Jesus' head.
8. But when his disciples saw this, they became angry and complained, “Why such a waste?
9. We could have sold this perfume for a lot of money and given it to the poor.”
10. Jesus knew what they were thinking, and he said:Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
11. You will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me.
12. She has poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.
13. You may be sure that wherever the good news is told all over the world, people will remember what she has done. And they will tell others.
14. Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples. He went to the chief priests
15. and asked, “How much will you give me if I help you arrest Jesus?” They paid Judas thirty silver coins,
16. and from then on he started looking for a good chance to betray Jesus.
17. On the first day of the Festival of Thin Bread, Jesus' disciples came to him and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal?”