Matthew 26:6-16 (Gospel, Presanctified)
- 6
- And when Jesus was in Bethany 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
- But 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
- For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always.
- 12
- For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.
- 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
- Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
- 15
- and said, “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.