Matthew 26:1-9 ▼

1 When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,

2 "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

3 Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,

4 and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.

5 But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."

6 Now when Jesus was come to Bethany and was at the house of Simon the Leper,

7 a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.

8 "Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples;

9 "for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor."