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1 ) Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
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2 ) There they made him a supper, and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
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3 ) Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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4 ) Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
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5 ) Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
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6 ) This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
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7 ) Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has she kept this.
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8 ) For the poor always all of you have with you, but me all of you have not always.