Matthew 26:5-24
English Standard Version
6Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
7a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
8And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
9For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor."
10But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
11For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
12In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
13Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."
14Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
15and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
16And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.
17Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
18He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’"
19And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.
20When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.
21And as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."
22And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?"
23He answered, "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.
24The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."