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“Certainly not during the Festival,” they said, “or there will be a riot among the people.”

Mary Anoints Jesus

While Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made from pure nard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it over his head. But there were some who were indignant and said to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?

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