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When he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sat at food, there came a woman having an alabaster jar of anointing oil called nard, which was pure and costly. And she broke the jar and poured it on his head. And there were some who were displeased in themselves and said, Why this waste of oyntment? For it could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor. And they grudged against her.

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