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And being in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at meat, there came a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of oyntment of spikenard very precious, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

And there were some that had indignation within themselues, and said, Why was this waste of the oyntment made?

For it might haue bene solde for more then three hundred pence, and haue bene giuen to the poore: and they murmured against her.

And Iesus said, Let her alone, why trouble you her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.

For ye haue the poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye will yee may doe them good: but me ye haue not alwayes.

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Uerely I say vnto you, Wheresoeuer this Gospel shalbe preached thorowout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shall be spoken of for a memoriall of her.