26:1 When 1 Jesus had finished saying all these things, he told his disciples, 26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over 2 to be crucified.” 3 26:3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 26:4 They 4 planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 26:5 But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.” 5
26:6 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 26:7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar 6 of expensive perfumed oil, 7 and she poured it on his head as he was at the table. 8 26:8 When 9 the disciples saw this, they became indignant and said, “Why this waste? 26:9 It 10 could have been sold at a high price and the money 11 given to the poor!” 26:10 When 12 Jesus learned of this, he said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She 13 has done a good service for me. 26:11 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me! 14 26:12 When 15 she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 26:13 I tell you the truth, 16 wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
26:14 Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 26:15 and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” 17 So they set out thirty silver coins for him. 26:16 From that time 18 on, Judas 19 began looking for an opportunity to betray him.
26:17 Now on the first day of the feast of 20 Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said, 21 “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 22 26:18 He 23 said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near. I will observe the Passover with my disciples at your house.”’” 26:19 So 24 the disciples did as Jesus had instructed them, and they prepared the Passover. 26:20 When 25 it was evening, he took his place at the table 26 with the twelve. 27 26:21 And while they were eating he said, “I tell you the truth, 28 one of you will betray me.” 29 26:22 They 30 became greatly distressed 31 and each one began to say to him, “Surely not I, Lord?” 26:23 He 32 answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me 33 will betray me.