1Now the Passover lamb and the unleavened were after two days, and the high priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by deceit and kill him.2For they said, "Not during the festival, lest there be a commotion among the people."3And while he was in Bethany in the home of Simon the leprous, reclining there, a woman came who had an alabaster jar of pure and valuable nard ointment; she broke the jar and poured it on his head.4Some were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this destruction of the ointment occurred?"5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor; and they were indignant with her.6But Jesus said, "Leave her alone; why are you troubling her? She has performed a good work for me."7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them, but you do not always have me.8She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.9Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.10And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the high priests in order that he might deliver him to them.11When they heard, they rejoiced and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how he might deliver him at an opportune moment.