John 12:7-9

Lexham English Bible

⁷ So Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my preparation for burial. ⁸ For you have the poor with you always, but you do not always have me.”

The Decision to Kill Lazarus

⁹ Now a large crowd^[a] of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.