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Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

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So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

3

Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.

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But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,

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Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

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(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

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Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

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The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.