1 After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.
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"Not during the festival," they said, "or there may be rioting among the people."
The Anointing at Bethany
3 While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.
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But some were expressing indignation to one another: "Why has this fragrant oil been wasted?
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For this oil might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor." And they began to scold her.
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Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me.