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John 12:7
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.
John 12:7 · Webster 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. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
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In context
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], who was to 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 bore what was put in it.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.
8 For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
9 Many people of the Jews therefore knew 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 consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
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