Alabaster Box and Money Box
John 12:1-16
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.…


Mark the striking contrast between the money box of Judas and the alabaster box of Mary, his thirty pieces of silver and her three hundred denaries, his love of money and her liberality, his hypocritical profession of concern for the poor, and her noble deed for the Lord, his wretched end and her noble deed for the Lord.

(P. Schaff, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

WEB: Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.




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