Matthew 26
Reading Matthew chapter 26 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he said to his disciples:
2 You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.
3 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:
4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.
5 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.
6 And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.
8 And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?
9 For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor.
10 And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me.
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