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While Jesus was eating a meal there, a woman came into the house. She brought a small stone jar with her. The jar contained expensive oil with a very nice smell.[a] She poured the oil over Jesus' head while he sat there.

Jesus' disciples saw what the woman had done. They became angry and they said, ‘This woman should not have wasted the oil. She could have sold it for a lot of money. Then she could have given the money to poor people.’

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  1. 26:7 The oil was called nard and people made it from a plant. The plant grows in the country called India. People kept the oil in a special stone jar. The woman had to break the jar to pour out the oil.