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John 12:3

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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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  1. John 12:1

    Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

  2. John 12:2

    There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

  3. John 12:4

    Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,

  4. John 12:5

    Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

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