ABU(i)
1 TWO days after, was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 For they said: Not at the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.
3 And he being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of pure spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And there were some that were much displeased among themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denáries, and given to the poor. And they murmured at her.
6 And Jesus said: Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? She wrought a good work on me.
7 For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.
8 She did what she could; she beforehand anointed my body for the preparation for burial.
9 Verily I say to you, wherever the good news shall be preached in the whole world, this also that she did shall be told for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to deliver him up to them.
11 And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him up.
12 And on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples say to him: Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?
13 And he sends forth two of his disciples, and says to them: Go into the city, and there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him.
14 And where he shall go in, say to the master of the house: The Teacher says, Where is the guest-chamber, in which I may eat the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will show you a large upper room furnished, ready; there prepare for us.