26:9. For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor.

26:10. And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this
woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me.

26:11. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not
always.

Me you have not always... Viz., in a visible manner, as when conversant
here on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may daily assist and
relieve.

26:12. For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my
burial.

26:13. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in
the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a
memory of her.

26:14. Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to
the chief priests.

26:15. And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him
unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.

26:16. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.

26:17. And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus,
saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

Azymes... Feast of the unleavened bread. Pasch... The paschal lamb.

26:18. But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man and say to
him: The master saith, My time is near at hand. With thee I make the
pasch with my disciples.

26:19. And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them: and they
prepared the pasch.

26:20. But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples.

26:21. And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you that one
of you is about to betray me.

26:22. And they being very much troubled began every one to say: Is it
I, Lord?

26:23. But he answering said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the
dish, he shall betray me.

26:24. The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to
that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for
him, if that man had not been born.

26:25. And Judas that betrayed him answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He
saith to him: Thou hast said it.

26:26. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and
broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my
body.

This is my body... He does not say, This is the figure of my body--but
This is my body. (2 Council of Nice, Act. 6.) Neither does he say in
this, or with this is my body; but absolutely, This is my body: which
plainly implies transubstantiation.

26:27.