Riverside(i)
1 THE Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to come after two days. The high priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize him by some stratagem and kill him.
2 For they said, "Not at the feast; there might be a popular outbreak."
3 During his stay in Bethany in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was reclining at table there came a woman with an alabaster jar of pure nard perfume, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some were indignant among themselves and said, "For what purpose was this waste of the perfume?
5 This perfume could have been sold for more than three hundred shillings and the money given to the poor." So they were indignant at her.
6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
7 The poor you have always with you, and whenever you will you can do them good, but me you have not always.
8 She has done what she could. She has anticipated the anointing of my body for burial.
9 I tell you truly wherever the good news shall be proclaimed over the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
10 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the high priests to betray him to them.
11 They were glad to hear it and promised to give him money. He meanwhile was contriving how he could betray him at some favorable time.
12 On the first day of unleavened bread — when they sacrificed the Passover lamb — his disciples said to him, "Where do you wish us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him,
14 and wherever he goes in, say to the householder, 'The Teacher says, Where is the guest room for me where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'
15 And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. There prepare for us."