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John 12:5
`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'
John 12:5 · Young's Literal Translation
John 12:5 in other translations
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
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In context
2 they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;
3 Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.
4 Therefore saith one of his disciples--Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up--
5 `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'
6 and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.
7 Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
8 for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
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