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| − | Two days later, it was time for the Passover holiday of unleavened bread, and the leading priests and scribes were trying to figure out how to catch Him by stealth and have Him executed. | + | Two days later, it was time for the Passover holiday of unleavened bread, and the leading priests and scribes were trying to figure out how to catch Him by stealth and have Him executed. But they said, "Not on the day of the festival! Do you want to have a riot among the people?" |
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| + | At that time, he was in Bethany at Simon the leper's house, having a meal. A woman came in with an expensive white crystal container of valerian oil, which she opened and poured over his head. Some of the onlookers were indignant, saying "Why did she waste that nice oil like that? We could have sold that for more than three hundred shillings and charitably donated the money to the poor!" They kept whispering about what a bad thing she had done. But Jesus said, "Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done Me a favor. There will always be poor people around, and whenever you feel like helping them you can, but I am not going to be around forever. She did what she could: She came in advance to get my body ready for burial. Truly I tell you: Anywhere in the world that people preach the good news about me, they are also going to remember what she did and talk about it." |
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| − | |<span id="14:2"></span>But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
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| − | |But they said, "Not on the day of the festival! Do you want to have a riot among the people?"
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| − | |And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
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| − | |<span id="14:3"></span>At that time, he was in Bethany at Simon the leper's house, having a meal. A woman came in with an expensive white crystal container of valerian oil, which she opened and poured over his head.
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| − | |<span id="14:4"></span>And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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| − | |<span id="14:5"></span>For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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| − | |We could have sold that for more than three hundred shillings and charitably donated the money to the poor!" They kept whispering about what a bad thing she had done.
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| − | |This oil was expensive indeed: a day's wages for three hundred men.
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| − | |<span id="14:6"></span>And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
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| − | |But Jesus said, "Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She had done Me a favor.
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| − | |<span id="14:7"></span>For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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| − | |<span id="14:8"></span>She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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| − | |She did what she could: She came in advance to get my body ready for burial.
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| − | |<span id="14:9"></span>Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
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| − | |Truly I tell you: Anywhere in the world that people preach the good news about me, they are also going to remember what she did and talk about it."
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| − | |<span id="14:10"></span>And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
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| − | |After that, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, went to betray Jesus to the leading priests,
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