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Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.
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But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,
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Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
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(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
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Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.
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The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
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Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.
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Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;
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For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.
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The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!