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And it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
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Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.
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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,
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and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;
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but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.
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But Jesus being in Bethany, in Simon the leper's house,
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a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.
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But the disciples seeing it became indignant, saying, To what end [was] this waste?