14:1 Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law 1 were trying to find a way 2 to arrest Jesus 3 by stealth and kill him. 14:2 For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.” 4
14:3 Now 5 while Jesus 6 was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, 7 a woman came with an alabaster jar 8 of costly aromatic oil 9 from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head. 14:4 But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive 10 ointment? 14:5 It 11 could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins 12 and the money 13 given to the poor!” So 14 they spoke angrily to her. 14:6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me. 14:7 For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me! 15 14:8 She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial. 14:9 I tell you the truth, 16 wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
14:10 Then 17 Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus into their hands. 18 14:11 When they heard this, they were delighted 19 and promised to give him money. 20 So 21 Judas 22 began looking for an opportunity to betray him.
14:12 Now 23 on the first day of the feast of 24 Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, 25 Jesus’ 26 disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 27 14:13 He sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar 28 of water will meet you. Follow him. 14:14 Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ 14:15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” 14:16 So 29 the disciples left, went 30 into the city, and found things just as he had told them, 31 and they prepared the Passover.
14:17 Then, 32 when it was evening, he came to the house 33 with the twelve. 14:18 While they were at the table 34 eating, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, 35 one of you eating with me will betray me.” 36