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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 is the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
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Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
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And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
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But they said, Not on the feast-[day], lest there be an uproar among the people.
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Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
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There came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he sat [at table].
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But when his disciples saw [it], they had indignation, saying, To what purpose [is] this waste?
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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.