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Now after two days was [the feast of] the passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him with subtlety, and kill him:
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for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
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And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; [and] she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.
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But there were some that had indignation among themselves, [saying], To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?
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For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, 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 hath wrought a good work on me.
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For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.