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After two days was the Feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft and put Him to death.
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But they said, "Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people."
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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box and poured it on His head.
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And there were some who were indignant within themselves and said, "Why was this ointment wasted?
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor." And they murmured against her.
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And Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on Me.
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For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good; but Me ye have not always.
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She hath done what she could; she hath come beforehand to anoint My body for burial.
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Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of as a memorial of her."
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And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests to betray Him unto them.