⁶While Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, ^ka man who had a serious skin disease, ⁷a woman approached Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive fragrant oil. She poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table. ⁸When the disciples ^lsaw it, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. ⁹“This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.”

¹⁰But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for Me. ¹¹You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me. ^m¹²By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial. ¹³^•I assure you: Wherever this gospel ⁿis proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”

¹⁴Then ^oone of the Twelve—the man called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests ^p¹⁵and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” So they weighed out 30 pieces of silver for him. ^q¹⁶And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray Him.

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Footnotes

•This is a phrase used only by Jesus to testify to the certainty and importance of His words; in Mt, Mk, and Lk it is literally Amen, I say to you; in Jn it is literally Amen, amen, I say to you.

Cross references

k26:6–13 Mk 14:3–9; Jn 12:1–8
l26:8 Mt 10:1; 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16
m26:11 Dt 15:11; Jn 12:8
n26:13 Mt 24:14; Mk 1:1; 13:10
o26:14–16 Mk 14:10–11; Lk 22:3–6
p26:14 Mt 10:4; Jn 6:71; 12:4; 13:30; Ac 1:16
q26:15 Ex 21:32; Zch 11:12–13; Mt 27:3