5 This perfume could have been sold for almost a year’s pay and the money given to the poor." And they scolded her.
6 Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you make trouble for her? She has done a good thing for me.
7 You always have the poor with you; and whenever you want, you can do something good for them. But you won’t always have me.
8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body ahead of time for burial.
9 I tell you the truth that, wherever in the whole world the good news is announced, what she’s done will also be told in memory of her."
10 Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to give Jesus up to them.
11 When they heard it, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he started looking for an opportunity to turn him in.