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It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;
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for they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."
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While he was in Beit-Anyah in the home of Shim`on (a man who had had tzara`at), and as he was eating, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfume, pure oil of nard, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume over Yeshua's head.
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But some there angrily said to themselves, "Why this waste of perfume?
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It could have been sold for a year's wages and given to the poor!" And they scolded her.
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But he said, "Let her be. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
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For you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.
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What she could do, she did do -- in advance she poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.
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Yes! I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."
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Then Y'hudah from K'riot, who was one of the Twelve, went to the head cohanim in order to betray Yeshua to them.
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They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.