laid up in a napkin:  for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man:  thou takest up that which thou layedst not down, and reapest that which thou didst not sow.’  He saith unto him, ’Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant.  Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up that which I laid not down, and reaping that which I did not sow; then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest?’ And he said unto them that stood by, ’Take away from him the pound, and give it unto him that hath the ten pounds.’  And they said unto him, ‘Lord, he hath ten pounds.’  ’I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him.  But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.’”

And when he had thus spoken, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.

GOING UP TO JERUSALEM.

Now the passover of the Jews was at hand:  and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.  They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What think ye?  That he will not come to the feast?”

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.

THE FEAST AT BETHANY.

Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.  So they made him a supper there in the house of Simon the leper; and Martha served:  but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.  Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith, “Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?”

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

Jesus therefore said, “Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.  For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.  She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.  And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there:  and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.  But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.