1 [14:1]AND after two days was the passover and the unleavened bread. And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by deception, and kill him. [14:2]But they said, Not at the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people. [14:3]And when he was at Bethany, and was reclining at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came, having a vase of ointment of genuine nard, extremely costly, and breaking the vase she poured it out on his head. 2 [14:4]And some were displeased, [and said] to themselves, Why was this waste of the ointment? [14:5]For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii [$42] and given to the poor; and they blamed her. [14:6] But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good work on me. [14:7]The poor you have always with you, and you can do them good when you will; but me you have not always. [14:8]She has done what she could. She anticipated anointing my body for the burial. [14:9]I tell you truly, that wherever this good news shall be preached in all the world, this also which she has done shall be told for a memorial of her. 3 [14:10]And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray him to them. [14:11]And when they heard him they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might betray him at a convenient time. 4 [14:12]And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said to him, Where do you wish us to go and prepare to eat the passover? [14:13]And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the city, and a man shall meet you bearing an earthen pitcher of water. Follow him, [14:14]and where he enters in, say to the master of the house, The teacher says, where is the public room in which I may eat the passover with my disciples? [14:15]And he will show you a large upper room, furnished, ready; and there prepare for us. [14:16]And his disciples went out, and came into the city, and found as he had said to them, and prepared the passover. 5 [14:17]And when it was evening he came, with the twelve, [14:18]And as they reclined, and were eating, Jesus said, I tell you truly, that one of you who eats with me will betray me. [14:19]And they were sorry, and said to him, one by one, Is it I? And another, Is it I? [14:20]And he said to them, It is one of the twelve who dips with me in the dish. [14:21]The Son of man goes indeed as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would be good for him if that man had not been born.