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- When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
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- "As you know, the Passover is two days away--and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."
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- Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
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- and they plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly way and kill him.
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- "But not during the Feast," they said, "or there may be a riot among the people."
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- While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper,
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- a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
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- When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked.
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- "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor."
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- Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
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- The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.
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- When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
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- I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
