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Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
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There they made him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those that sat at the table with him.
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Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who should betray him,
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Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarius and given to the poor?
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This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and would take from what was put therein.
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Therefore Jesus said, Let her alone; against the day of my burying she has kept this;
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for the poor ye always have with you, but ye shall not always have me.