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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.
2
But they said, Not on the feast
day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3
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.
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For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will, ye may do them good; but me ye have not always.
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She has done what she could, for she has anticipated anointing my body for the burial.
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Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world,
this also that she has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.