The Life of Jesus

Then the people who have done what God wants will reply, `Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

When did we see you a stranger and make you our guest, or needing clothes and provide them?

When did we see you sick or in prison, and visit you?'

The King will say to them, `Yes! I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did them for me!'

"Then he will also speak to those on his left, saying, `Get away from me, you who are cursed! Go off into the fire prepared for the Adversary and his angels!

For I was hungry and you gave me no food, thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

a stranger and you did not welcome me, needing clothes and you did not give them to me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'

Then they too will reply, `Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty, a stranger, needing clothes, sick or in prison, and not take care of you?'

And he will answer them, `Yes! I tell you that whenever you refused to do it for the least important of these people, you refused to do it for me!'

They will go off to eternal punishment, but those who have done what God wants will go to eternal life."

When Yeshua had finished speaking, he said to his talmidim,

"As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake."

Then the head cohanim and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of Kayafa the cohen hagadol.

They made plans to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

but they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."

Yeshua was in Beit-Anyah, at the home of Shim`on, the man who had had tzara'at.

A woman who had an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume approached Yeshua while he was eating and began pouring it on his head.

When the talmidim saw it, they became very angry. "Why this waste?" they asked.

"This could have been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor."

But Yeshua, aware of what was going on, said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.

She poured this perfume on me to prepare my body for burial.

Yes! I tell you that throughout the whole world, wherever this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."

Then one of the Twelve, the one called Y'hudah from K'riot, went to the head cohanim

and said, "What are you willing to give me if I turn Yeshua over to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to Y'hudah.n