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Matthew 26:5-8 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. But they said, "Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people."

6. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

7. a woman drew near to him, holding an alabaster box of precious ointment, and she poured it over his head while he was reclining at table.

8. But the disciples, seeing this, were indignant, saying: "What is the purpose of this waste?

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