Matthew 26:1-27

Worsley(i) 1 And when Jesus had finished these discourses, He said to his disciples, 2 Ye know that after two days the passover is to be kept,---and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. 3 Now the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people were then assembled together into the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas: 4 and were consulting how they might take Jesus by treachery and put Him to death. 5 But they said, Not on the feast-day, least there should be a tumult among the people. 6 And when Jesus was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 there came to Him a woman with an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as He was at table: 8 but when his disciples saw it, they were some of them provoked at it, and said, Wherefore is this waste? 9 for this ointment might have been sold for a great deal of money, and given to the poor. 10 But Jesus, knowing what passed, said to them, Why do ye give the woman uneasiness? for she has done a good office to me: 11 (seeing ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always:) for in pouring this ointment on my body, 12 she has embalmed me for my burial. 13 Verily I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached, in the whole world, what she hath done shall also be spoken of for a memorial of her. 14 About this time went one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, 15 to the chief priests, and said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him to you? and they promised him thirty pieces of silver: 16 and from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him. 17 Now upon the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, came the disciples to Jesus, saying, where wouldest thou have us make preparation for thee to eat the passover? 18 And He said, Go into the city, to such a man, and tell him, The master saith, my time is near, I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples: and the disciples did as Jesus ordered them, 19 and prepared the passover. 20 And when the evening was come, He sat down with the twelve: 21 and as they were eating, He said, Verily I tell you, that one of you will betray me. 22 And they were exceedingly grieved, and said to Him, every one of them, Lord, is it I? 23 and He answered, he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, even he will betray me. 24 The Son of man is going indeed as it is written concerning Him: but wo to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed; it had been good for him, if that man had never been born. 25 And Judas, who betrayed Him, answered and said, Master, is it I? and He said unto him, \i It is. 26 Now as they were at table, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body: 27 and He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it: