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When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
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"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, 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 gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
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and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
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But they said, "Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people."
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Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
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But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, "Why this waste?
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For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor."
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But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? She has performed a good service for me.
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For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.