Jesus Anointed at Bethany
6 1Now when Jesus was at
2Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
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And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
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For this could have been sold for a large sum and
3given to the poor. ”
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But
4Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
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For
5you always have the poor with you, but
6you will not always have me.
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In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it
7to prepare me for burial.
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Truly, I say to you, wherever
8this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told
9in memory of her. ”
Judas to Betray Jesus
14 10Then one of the twelve, whose name was
11Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
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and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you? ” And they
12paid him
13thirty pieces of silver.
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And from that moment he sought an opportunity
14to betray him.