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But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.”

The Anointing at Bethany

Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table.

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