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Matthew 26:5

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But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

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  1. 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,

  2. Matthew 26:4

    And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

  3. Matthew 26:6

    Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

  4. 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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.