King James Version (KJV)
John 12:5
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
Verse in context — John 12
3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], which should betray him,
5
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7
Then said Jesus, ‹Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.›
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