1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these saying, he said to his disciples,
2 Ye know that after two days the Passover comes, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3 Then the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 and they deliberated so that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not during the feast, lest an uproar develop among people.
6 Now when Jesus happened to be in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 a woman came to him having an alabaster cruse of precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head as he sat relaxing.
8 But when his disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, Why this waste?
9 For this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10 But Jesus knowing it, he said to them, Why do ye cause troubles to the woman? For she has wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.
12 For by pouring this ointment upon my body, she did it for my burial.
13 Truly I say to you, wherever this good-news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be told for a memorial of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, having gone to the chief priests,
15 he said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they weighed out to him thirty silver pieces.
16 And from that time he sought a favorable opportunity so that he might betray him.
17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where do thou want that we should prepare for thee to eat the Passover?
18 And he said, Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near. I keep the Passover with my disciples with thee.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus arranged for them, and they prepared the Passover.
20 Now having become evening, he was sitting with the twelve.
21 And as they were eating, he said, Truly I say to you, that one of you will betray me.
22 And being exceedingly sorrowful, they began, each of them, to say to him, Is it I, Lord?
23 And having answered, he said, He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, this man will betray me.
24 The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.
25 And Judas (the man who betrayed him) having answered, he said, Is it I, Rabbi? He says to him, Thou have said.
26 And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, having expressed thanks, broke in pieces, and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my body.
27 And having taken the cup, having expressed thanks, he gave to them, saying, All ye drink of it,
28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed on behalf of many for remission of sins.