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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-This begins the account of a woman pouring expensive oil on Jesus before his death.
-
-# Now
-
-This word is used here to mark a new part of the story.
-
 # Simon the leper
 
-It is implied that this is a man whom Jesus had healed from leprosy. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
+It is implied that this is a man whom Jesus had healed from leprosy.