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John 12:7
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
John 12:7 · World English Bible
John 12:7 in other translations
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone, that she may keep this for the day of my burial.
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In context
4 Then 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?”
6 Now 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.
7 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
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