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Matthew 26:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.” "
Matthew 26:13
Verse in Context
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11 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
13 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
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Matthew 26:1
"When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,"
Matthew 26:2
"“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”"
Matthew 26:3
"Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas."
Matthew 26:4
"They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him."
Matthew 26:5
"But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”"
Matthew 26:6
"Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,"
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