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be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he
departed from Galilee, and passed through the borders of Samaria and
Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the Jordan. And great
multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going
before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid.

And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that
were to happen unto them, saying, "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and
the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the
scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto
the Gentiles; and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall
scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again."

Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples,
"Let us also go, that we may die with him."

And he entered and passed through Jericho and went on before, going up
to Jerusalem.

Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem
out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves. They
sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in
the temple, "What think ye? That he will not come to the feast?"

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if
any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.

THE FEAST AT BETHANY.

Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus
was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there in
the house of Simon the leper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of
them that sat at meat with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of
pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his
feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,
"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given
to the poor?"

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was
a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

Jesus therefore said, "Suffer her to keep it against the day of my
burying. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not
always. She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body
beforehand for the burying.