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But he said, "Let her be. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
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For you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.
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What she could do, she did do -- in advance she poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.
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Yes! I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."
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Then Y'hudah from K'riot, who was one of the Twelve, went to the head cohanim in order to betray Yeshua to them.
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They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.
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On the first day for matzah, when they slaughtered the lamb for Pesach, Yeshua's talmidim asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare your Seder?"
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He sent two of his talmidim with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him;
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and whichever house he enters, tell him that the Rabbi says, `Where is the guest room for me, where I am to eat the Pesach meal with my talmidim?'
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He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations there."
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The talmidim went off, came to the city and found things just as he had told them they would be; and they prepared the Seder.