Matthew 26:1–16
The Religious Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus
26 Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples, 2 a“You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
3 bThen the chief priests, 1the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 and cplotted to take Jesus by 2trickery and kill Him. 5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the dpeople.”
6 And when Jesus was in eBethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 fBut when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 gFor you have the poor with you always, but hMe you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My iburial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”
14 jThen one of the twelve, called kJudas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, l“What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. 16 So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.