Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent
on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.
014:002 But they said, "Not on the Festival-day, for fear there should
be a riot among the people."
014:003 Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper,
while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure,
sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar
and poured the ointment over His head.
014:004 But there were some who said indignantly among themselves,
"Why has the ointment been thus wasted?
014:005 For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds
or more, and the money have been given to the poor."
And they were exceedingly angry with her.
014:006 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her?
She has done a most gracious act towards me.
014:007 For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you
choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you
have not always.
014:008 What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation
for my burial.
014:009 And I solemnly tell you that wherever in the whole world
the Good News shall be proclaimed, this which she has done
shall also be told in remembrance of her."
014:010 But Judas Iscariot, already mentioned as one of the Twelve,
went to the High Priests to betray Jesus to them.
014:011 They gladly listened to his proposal, and promised to give
him a sum of money. So he looked out for an opportunity
to betray Him.
014:012 On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread--the day for
killing the Passover lamb--His disciples asked Him, "Where shall