SinaiJohn 12:5
World English Bible
“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
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John 12:5 in other translations
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?
John 12:5 in context
- 3Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
- 4Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
- 5“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
- 6Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
- 7But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.