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but gar they were saying legō, “ Not during en the ho festival heortē, lest mēpote there be eimi an uproar thorybos among the ho people laos.”

And kai while he autos was eimi in en Bethany Bēthania in en the ho house oikia of Simon Simōn the ho leper lepros, as he autos reclined katakeimai at table , there came erchomai a woman gynē with echō an alabaster alabastros flask of very costly polytelēs anointment myron of pure pistikos nard nardos; and breaking syntribō the ho flask alabastros, she poured katacheō it over his autos · ho head kephalē. But de some tis were eimi indignant aganakteō, and began saying to pros themselves heautou, “ For eis what tis purpose was ginomai · ho this houtos waste apōleia of ho ointment myron?

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“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”

While he was in Bethany,(A) reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.(B)

Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?

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