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And when He was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at table, there came a woman with a box of ointment (of spikenard, very costly). And she broke the box and poured it on His head.

Therefore some whispered angrily among themselves, and said, “To what end is this waste of ointment?

“For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denari, and the money given to the poor.” And they murmured against her.

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