The Plot to Kill Jesus
1 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
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1"You know that after two days 2the Passover is coming, and 3the Son of Man 4will be delivered up to be crucified."
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5Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in
6the palace of the high priest, whose name was
7Caiaphas,
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8and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
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But they said, "Not during the feast,
9lest there be an uproar among the people."
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
6 10Now when Jesus was at
11Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
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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 reclined at table.
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And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
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For this could have been sold for a large sum and
12given to the poor."
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But
13Jesus, 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 14you always have the poor with you, but 15you will not always have me.
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In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it 16to prepare me for burial.
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Truly, I say to you, wherever 17this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told 18in memory of her."