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Today's Readings
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Saturday, 27th April 2024 --- 19 Baramoudah 1740
Matthew 26 : 3 - 16
Chapter 26
| 3 | Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
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| 4 | and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.
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| 5 | But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people."
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| 6 | And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,
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| 7 | a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.
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| 8 | But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
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| 9 | For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor."
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| 10 | But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.
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| 11 | For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always.
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| 12 | For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.
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| 13 | Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her."
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| 14 | Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
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| 15 | and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
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| 16 | So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.
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