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Matthew 26:7-13
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Matthew 26:7-13
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a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table.
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But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
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For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum, and given to the poor."
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But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
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For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
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In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial.
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Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.