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1And while he was at 2Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
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There were some who said to themselves indignantly, "Why was the ointment wasted like that?
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For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and 3given to the poor." And they 4scolded her.
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But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
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For 5you always have the poor with you, and whenever 6you want, you can do good for them. But 7you will not always have me.
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8She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand 9for burial.
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And truly, I say to you, wherever 10the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told 11in memory of her."