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While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted? For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii,[a] and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

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  1. 14:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.