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And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;
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and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'
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And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;
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and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?
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for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.
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And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;
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for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;
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what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.
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Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of -- for a memorial of her.'
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And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,
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and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.