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For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii,[a] and the money given to the poor.’ And they scolded her. But Jesus said, ‘Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me.

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  1. Mark 14:5 The denarius was the usual day’s wage for a labourer

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