¹ And when Jesus had come to the end of all these words, he said to his disciples,

² After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.

³ Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

⁴ And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.

⁵ But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

⁶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

⁷ There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.

⁸ But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

⁹ For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.

¹⁰ But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.

¹¹ For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

¹² For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

¹³ Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,

¹⁵ What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

¹⁶ And from that time he was watching for a chance to give him into their hands.

¹⁷ Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

¹⁸ And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.

¹⁹ And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.

²⁰ Now when evening was come, he was seated at table with the twelve disciples;

²¹ And while they were taking food, he said, Truly I say to you that one of you will be false to me.

²² And they were very said, and said to him, one by one, Is it I, Lord?

²³ And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me.

²⁴ The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.

²⁵ And Judas, who was false to him, made answer and said, Is it I, Master? He says to him, Yes.

²⁶ And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.

²⁷ And he took a cup and, having given praise, he gave it to them, saying,