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When Yeshua had finished speaking, he said to his talmidim,
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"As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake."
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Then the head cohanim and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of Kayafa the cohen hagadol.
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They made plans to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;
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but they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."
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Yeshua was in Beit-Anyah, at the home of Shim`on, the man who had had tzara'at.
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A woman who had an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume approached Yeshua while he was eating and began pouring it on his head.
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When the talmidim saw it, they became very angry. "Why this waste?" they asked.
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"This could have been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor."
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But Yeshua, aware of what was going on, said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
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The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.
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She poured this perfume on me to prepare my body for burial.
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Yes! I tell you that throughout the whole world, wherever this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."