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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB The Conspiracy against Jesus. 1*
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread* were to take
place in two days’ time.a So the chief priests and the scribes
were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to
death. 2They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there
may be a riot among the people.” The Anointing at Bethany.*
3When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon
the leper,b a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil,
costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured
it on his head. 4There were some who were indignant. “Why has
there been this waste of perfumed oil? 5It could have been sold
for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to
the poor.” They were infuriated with her. 6Jesus said, “Let her
alone. Why do you make trouble for her? She has done a good
thing for me. 7The poor you will always have with you, and
whenever you wish