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Matthew 26:6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Matthew 26:6 ESV

Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper

Matthew 26:7 ESV

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

Matthew 26:8 ESV

And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

Matthew 26:9 ESV

For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.”

Matthew 26:10 ESV

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

Matthew 26:11 ESV

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

Matthew 26:12 ESV

In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

Matthew 26:13 ESV

Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”