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1 Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 2 For they said, |Not during the feast, so there won't be a riot among the people.| 3 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head. 4 But some who were present indignantly said to one another, |Why this waste of expensive ointment? Mark 14:1-4, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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