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1Now when Jesus was at 2Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
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And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
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For this could have been sold for a large sum and 3given to the poor."
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But 4Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
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For 5you always have the poor with you, but 6you will not always have me.
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In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it 7to prepare me for burial.
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Truly, I say to you, wherever 8this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told 9in memory of her."