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## Matthew 26:6-16 in Context (Verses 3–19 KJV)
 
 [3 ](/kjv/matthew/26/3) Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
 
 [4 ](/kjv/matthew/26/4) And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill *him*.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/matthew/26/5) But they said, Not on the feast *day*, lest there be an uproar among the people.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/matthew/26/6) ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
 
 [7 ](/kjv/matthew/26/7) There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat *at meat*.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/matthew/26/8) But when his disciples saw *it*, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose *is* this waste?
 
 [9 ](/kjv/matthew/26/9) For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/matthew/26/10) When Jesus understood *it*, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/matthew/26/11) For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/matthew/26/12) For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did *it* for my burial.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/matthew/26/13) Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, *there* shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/matthew/26/14) ¶ Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
 
 [15 ](/kjv/matthew/26/15) And said *unto them*, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/matthew/26/16) And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/matthew/26/17) ¶ Now the first *day* of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
 
 [18 ](/kjv/matthew/26/18) And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/matthew/26/19) And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
 
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