The Gospel According to Matthew

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

'Ye have known that after two days the passover cometh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified.'

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill [him],

and they said, 'Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

And Jesus having been in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).

And having seen [it], his disciples were much displeased, saying, 'To what purpose [is] this waste?

for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'

And Jesus having known, said to them, 'Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;

for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;

for she having put this ointment on my body -- for my burial she did [it].

Verily I say to you, Wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this [one] did shall also be spoken of -- for a memorial of her.'

Then one of the twelve, who is called Judas Iscariot, having gone unto the chief priests, said,

'What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,

and from that time he was seeking a convenient season to deliver him up.

And on the first [day] of the unleavened food came the disciples near to Jesus, saying to him, 'Where wilt thou [that] we may prepare for thee to eat the passover?'

and he said, 'Go away to the city, unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is nigh; near thee I keep the passover, with my disciples;'

and the disciples did as Jesus appointed them, and prepared the passover.

And evening having come, he was reclining (at meat) with the twelve,

and while they are eating, he said, 'Verily I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.'

And being grieved exceedingly, they began to say to him, each of them, 'Is it I, Sir?'

And he answering said, 'He who did dip with me the hand in the dish, he will deliver me up;

the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born.'