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It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:
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But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.
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And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.
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But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
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We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
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But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
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The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
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She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
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And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.