Syriac Anecdotes, Volumes 3 and 4

And it happened that when Jesus had finished all these words,
he said * to his disciples, "You know that after two days
the Passover the Jewish festival occurs, and the Son of Man is delivered to be crucified." Then were gathered together
the chief priests leaders of the Temple and the scribes and the elders of the people
to the courtyard of the high priest who is called
Caiaphas a Jewish high priest, and they took counsel against Jesus, that they might seize him by guile and kill him.
And they were saying, "Not during the festival, lest there be a disturbance among the people."
And while Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
there came to him a woman who had with her an alabaster flask of very precious fragrant oil,
and she poured it on the head of Jesus while he was reclining. The disciples saw this, and it was displeasing
to them, and they said, "Why this waste? For this could have been sold
for much, and given to the poor." Jesus, however, knew and said to them,
"Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.
For always you have the poor with you, but me you do not have always.
This, that she poured this oil on my body, she did as for my burial.
And truly I say to you, wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole
world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of for her memorial." Then went one of the
twelve, who is called Judas Iscariot the betrayer of Jesus, to the chief priests, and said to them,
"What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you?"
They, however, set for him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he was seeking
an opportunity that he might deliver him. On the first day of the
unleavened bread the days preceding Passover, the disciples approached
to Jesus, and said to him, "Where do you wish that we prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
He, however, said to them, "Go to the city to such-and-such, and say to him,
'Our teacher says, my time has arrived; with you I will keep the Passover with my disciples.'"
And the disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and prepared the Passover.
And when it was evening, he was reclining with his twelve disciples.
And while they were eating, he said, "Truly I say to you, that one of you will betray me."
And it grieved them greatly, and they began to say to him one by one, "Is it I, my Lord?"
He, however, answered and said, "He who dips his hand with me in the dish, he will betray me."