3-5. Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper. While he was eating dinner, a woman came up carrying a bottle of very expensive perfume. Opening the bottle, she poured it on his head. Some of the guests became furious among themselves. “That’s criminal! A sheer waste! This perfume could have been sold for well over a year’s wages and handed out to the poor.” They swelled up in anger, nearly bursting with indignation over her.
25. “I’ll not be drinking wine again until the new day when I drink it in the kingdom of God.”
26. They sang a hymn and then went directly to Mount Olives.
27-28. Jesus told them, “You’re all going to feel that your world is falling apart and that it’s my fault. There’s a Scripture that says,I will strike the shepherd;The sheep will go helter-skelter.“But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you, leading the way to Galilee.”
29. Peter blurted out, “Even if everyone else is ashamed of you when things fall to pieces, I won’t be.”
30. Jesus said, “Don’t be so sure. Today, this very night in fact, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
31. He blustered in protest, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you.” All the others said the same thing.