“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii[a] and (A)given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and (B)having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it[b] for the day of my burial.

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer
  2. John 12:7 Or Leave her alone; she intended to keep it

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