New Testament in a Year

14 And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

² and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

³ And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;

⁴ and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?

⁵ for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.

⁶ And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;

⁷ for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;

⁸ what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.

⁹ Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of -- for a memorial of her.'

¹⁰ And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,

¹¹ and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.

¹² And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, `Where wilt thou, [that,] having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?'

¹³ And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith to them, `Go ye away to the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow him;

¹⁴ and wherever he may go in, say ye to the master of the house -- The Teacher saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where the passover, with my disciples, I may eat?

¹⁵ and he will shew you a large upper room, furnished, prepared -- there make ready for us.'

¹⁶ And his disciples went forth, and came to the city, and found as he said to them, and they made ready the passover.

¹⁷ And evening having come, he cometh with the twelve,

¹⁸ and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, `Verily I say to you -- one of you, who is eating with me -- shall deliver me up.'

¹⁹ And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to him, one by one, `Is it I?' and another, `Is it I?'

²⁰ And he answering said to them, `One of the twelve who is dipping with me in the dish;

²¹ the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but wo to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up; good were it to him if that man had not been born.'

²² And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.'

²³ And having taken the cup, having given thanks, he gave to them, and they drank of it -- all;

²⁴ and he said to them, `This is my blood of the new covenant, which for many is being poured out;

²⁵ verily I say to you, that no more may I drink of the produce of the vine till that day when I may drink it new in the reign of God.'

²⁶ And having sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of the Olives,