1 WHEN Jesus had finished all these discourses, he said to his disciples,
2 "You know that after two days comes the Passover, and the Son of Man is to be betrayed to be crucified."
3 Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled at the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 and they plotted to seize Jesus by some trick and kill him.
5 But they said, "Not on the feast day, so that there may not be a riot among the people."
6 When Jesus had come to Bethany and was in the house of Simon the leper,
7 a woman came up to him, bringing an alabaster jar of costly ointment, and poured it on his head while he was reclining at table.
8 On seeing this, the disciples were indignant and said, "Why this waste?
9 This could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor."
10 But Jesus observed it and said, "Why are you troubling the woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
11 You have the poor with you always, but me you will not have always.
12 For in pouring this ointment on my body she prepared me for burial.
13 I tell you truly wherever this good news shall be proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be spoken of too in memory of her."
14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests
15 and asked, "What will you give me if I betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that moment he kept seeking a favorable time to betray him.
17 On the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you wish us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
18 He answered, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is near. I will keep the Passover with my disciples at your house.'
19 The disciples did as Jesus had instructed them and prepared the Passover.
20 When evening had come, he was reclining at table with the twelve disciples.
21 While they were eating, he said, "I tell you truly one of you will betray me."
22 Greatly grieved, they began to ask him, each in turn, "It is not I, Master?"
23 He answered, "He who dipped his band with me in the dish is the one who will betray me.
24 The Son of Man is going as it has been written of him, but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! For that man it would be good not to have been born."
25 Then Judas the traitor asked, "It is not I, Rabbi?" Jesus replied, "It is you."
26 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf and blessed it and broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. This is my body."
27 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you;
28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.