The Chief Priests and Elders Plot to Kill Jesus
1 And it happened that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
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"You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Man will be handed over in order to be crucified."
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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
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and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill [him].
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But they were saying, "Not during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people."
Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany
6 Now [while] Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured [it] out on his head [while he] was reclining 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 given to the poor!"
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But Jesus, knowing [this], said to them, "Why do you cause trouble for the woman? For she has done a good deed for me.
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For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.
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For [when] this woman poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] in order to prepare me for burial.
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Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her."