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When Jesus had finished teaching all these things, he said to his disciples,
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"In two days, as you know, it will be the Passover Festival, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."
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Then the chief priests and the elders met together in the palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest,
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and made plans to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.
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"We must not do it during the festival," they said, "or the people will riot."
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Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease.
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While Jesus was eating, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar filled with an expensive perfume, which she poured on his head.
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The disciples saw this and became angry. "Why all this waste?" they asked.