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for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people."
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While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.
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But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted?
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"For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her.
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But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.