John 12:3-8 ▼

3 Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

4 Therefore one of His disciples—Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver Him up—says,

5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, 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, “Permit her; she has kept it for the day of My embalming,

8 for you always have the poor with yourselves, and you do not always have Me.”