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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.
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By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial.
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Truly I tell you, wherever this good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her."
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Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
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and said, "What will you give me if I betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.
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And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
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On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
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He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, "The Teacher says, My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.' "
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So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.