Matthew 26:6-16 (Holy Wednesday - Presanctified)
Now when
Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive
ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table.
But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why
this waste?
For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum, and given to
the poor."
But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the
woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have
me.
In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me
for burial.
Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole
world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the
chief priests
and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him to you?" And they
paid him thirty pieces of silver.
And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.
