And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment
of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
There were some who said to themselves indignantly, "Why was the ointment
wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three
hundred denarii and given to
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