Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
6 When Jesus was in the town of Bethany, he was in the house of Simon, a man who had leprosy, a bad skin disease.
7 While Jesus sat at the table, a woman came to him. She had a bottle of oil. It smelled very nice and cost much money. She put the oil on Jesus' head.
8 When the disciples saw this, they were angry. They said, `Why was the oil wasted like that?
9 The oil might have been sold for much money. Then the money could have been given to poor people.'
10 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, `Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good thing to me.
11 You will always have poor people with you. But I will not always be with you.
12 She has put oil on my body to make me ready to be buried.
13 I tell you the truth. Any place in the whole world where people tell the good news, people will also tell what she has done. People will remember her because of it.'
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