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Two days after was the passover and the days of unleavened bread; and the princes of the priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, that they might kill him.
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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 he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, sitting at the table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and breaking the alabaster, she poured it over his head.
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And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarius and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She has wrought a good work on me.