MNT(i)
1 Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;
2 but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."
3 And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was dining, a woman came with an alabaster vase of very costly, pure spikenard perfume, and, breaking the vase, she poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those who were present said among themselves indignantly. "Why has the perfume been wasted like this?
5 That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."
6 So they began upbraiding her, but Jesus said: "Let her alone. Why are you troubling her?
7 She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.
8 She has done what she could. she has before time anointed my body for my burial.
9 I tell you in solemn truth that wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world, there what she has done shall be told in remembrance of her."
10 Now Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went away to the high priests to betray Jesus to them;
11 and they were glad when they heard it, and promised to pay him money. So he kept looking for an opportunity to betray him.
12 And the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the day for killing the paschal lamb, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparation for you to eat the Passover?"
13 Then he sent two of his disciples, and told them. "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jar of water.
14 Follow him; and whatever house he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher asks, "Where is your guest-chamber, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
15 He will himself show you a large, upper room, furnished and ready. there make preparation for us."