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For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
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When Jesus understood [it], he said to them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon 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 that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial.
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Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, [there] shall also this, which this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
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Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
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And said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
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And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
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Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
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And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
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And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.