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John 12:7
Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
John 12:7 · Young's Literal Translation
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 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.'
9 A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;
10 and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,
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