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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?
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for this might have been sold for much and been given to the poor.
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But Jesus knowing [it] said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.
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For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
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For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.