SinaiJohn 12:5
American Standard Version
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?
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John 12:5 in other translations
“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
John 12:5 in context
- 3Mary 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.
- 4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,
- 5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?
- 6Now 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.
- 7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.