PASSION I. The Anointing at Bethany (Mt 26,1-13; Mc 14,1-9; Jn 11,45-54; 12,1-8)Mt 26:1-5: When Jesus had finished all these sayings, He said to His disciples, 2. “You know that after twodays the Passover is coming, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified.” 3. Then the chiefpriests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Ca′iaphas, 4. andtook counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill Him. 5. But they said, “Not during the feast,lest there be a tumult among the people.”Mk 14,1-2: It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chiefpriests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill Him; 2. for they said, “Not duringthe feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.”Jn 11:45-54: Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed inHim; 46. but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47. So the chief priestsand the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, “What are we to do? For this Man performs many signs. 48.If we let Him go on thus, every one will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and destroy both ourholy place and our nation.” 49. But one of them, Ca′iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “Youknow nothing at all; 50. you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one Man should die for the pe-ople, and that the whole nation should not perish.” 51. He did not say this of his own accord, but being highpriest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, 52. and not for the nation only, but to ga-ther into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53. So from that day on they took counsel how toput him to death. 54. Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to thecountry near the wilderness, to a town called E′phraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.Mt 26,6-13: Now w...