The Plot to Kill Jesus
1 When Jesus had finished saying all this, He told His disciples,
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"You know that the Passover takes place after two days, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."
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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
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and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.
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"Not during the festival," they said, "so there won't be rioting among the people."
The Anointing at Bethany
6 While Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had a serious skin disease,
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a woman approached Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive fragrant oil. She poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table.
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When the disciples saw it, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked.
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"This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor."
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But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for Me.
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You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.
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By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial.
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I assure you: Wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her."