Mark 14:3
Showing verse 3 with surrounding context.
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¶ After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
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But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of 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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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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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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And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
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