Matthew 26:1–9
1When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,↗
2“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”↗
3Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.↗
4They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.↗
5But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”↗
6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,↗
7a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.↗
8But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?↗
9For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”↗
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