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And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.

And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

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