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Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, 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 bore what was put in it.
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Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.
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For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
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Many people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
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But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
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Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
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On the next day, many people that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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Took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna; Blessed [is] the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
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Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.