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"This perfume is worth a year's wages! Why wasn't it sold and the money given to the poor?"
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Now he said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief -- he was in charge of the common purse and used to steal from it.
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Yeshua said, "Leave her alone! She kept this for the day of my burial.
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You always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
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A large crowd of Judeans learned that he was there; and they came not only because of Yeshua, but also so that they could see El`azar, whom he had raised from the dead.
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The head cohanim then decided to do away with El`azar too,
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since it was because of him that large numbers of the Judeans were leaving their leaders and putting their trust in Yeshua.
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The next day, the large crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yeshua was on his way into Yerushalayim.
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They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Deliver us!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI, the King of Isra'el!"
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After finding a donkey colt, Yeshua mounted it, just as the Tanakh says --
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"Daughter of Tziyon, don't be afraid! Look! your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt."