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After two days was [the feast of] the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how they might take him by craft, and put [him] to death.
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But they said, Not on the feast-[day], lest there should be an uproar of the people.
3
And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box, and poured [it] on his head.
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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
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For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, [this] also that she hath done shall be spoken of, for a memorial of her.