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When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,
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"You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
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Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,
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and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.
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But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."
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Now when Jesus was come to Bethany and was at the house of Simon the Leper,
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a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.
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"Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples;
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"for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor."
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But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.
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The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.