Tua Palavra

|Mateus 26:1| Jesus had now finished all he wanted to say, and he told his disciples,

|Mateus 26:2| 'It will be Passover, as you know, in two days' time, and the Son of man will be handed over to be crucified.'

|Mateus 26:3| Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

|Mateus 26:4| and made plans to arrest Jesus by some trick and have him put to death.

|Mateus 26:5| They said, however, 'It must not be during the festivities; there must be no disturbance among the people.'

|Mateus 26:6| Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a virulent skin-disease, when

|Mateus 26:7| a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and poured it on his head as he was at table.

|Mateus 26:8| When they saw this, the disciples said indignantly, 'Why this waste?

|Mateus 26:9| This could have been sold for a high price and the money given the poor.'

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|Mateus 26:10| But Jesus noticed this and said, 'Why are you upsetting the woman? What she has done for me is indeed a good work!