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Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passouer, came to Bethanie, where Lazarus was, which had bene dead, whom hee raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.

Then tooke Mary a pound of ointment, of Spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Iesus, & wiped his feet with her haire: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Then saith one of his disciples, Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne, which should betray him,

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and giuen to the poore?

This he said, not that he cared for the poore: but because hee was a thiefe, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

Then said Iesus, Let her alone, against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

For the poore alwayes yee haue with you: but me ye haue not alwayes.