¶It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.”

¶While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?^[a]

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.

¶But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

¶Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”

¶He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

¶His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

¶When it was evening he came with the twelve.

As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly Truly I tell you, that one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”

¶They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”

¶He answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.

¶As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”